{"id":13537,"date":"2020-10-30T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2022-08-14T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:01:36","slug":"elements-of-retrofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13537","title":{"rendered":"Elements of Retrofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oJZUxd\">Elements of Retrofit<\/a><\/em> (2017) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Walker_NR.php\">N.R. Walker<\/a> (Thomas Elkin)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oJZUxd\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Elements-of-Retrofit.jpg?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Elements of Retrofit\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Elements-of-Retrofit.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Elements-of-Retrofit.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>Thomas Elkin is 44, divorced, and a senior partner in a prestigious architecture firm. What he doesn&#8217;t expect is to fall for one of the summer interns&#8211;a man who is also a friend of his son.<\/p>\n<p>So. Yeah. Not my thing. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t love the age difference trope, and I really had issues with the younger man being a high school friend of his son. That&#8217;s just&#8230; a super awkward relationship and it couldn&#8217;t really get past it. (Though I did appreciate the scene when his son finds out and completely freaks out. Because: yeah.)<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Blue Heart Press<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elements of Retrofit (2017) N.R. Walker (Thomas Elkin) Thomas Elkin is 44, divorced, and a senior partner in a prestigious architecture firm. What he doesn&#8217;t expect is to fall for one of the summer interns&#8211;a man who is also a friend of his son. So. Yeah. Not my thing. I don&#8217;t love the age difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292,148,26,56],"tags":[50,544,199],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebook","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-mm","tag-n-r-walker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3wl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14234,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14234","url_meta":{"origin":13537,"position":0},"title":"Upside Down","author":"Michelle","date":"April 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Upside Down (2019) N.R. 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