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Heroes? The New Men Of Modern Romantic Fiction Are About As Sexy As Socks

Posted at 7:15AM Tuesday 30 Mar 2010

Something's gone wrong with romance writing.

Where once manly Rhett Butler battled the flames of Atlanta to rescue Scarlett O'Hara or a rugged Heathcliff tore the earth from Catherine Earnshaw's grave, readers now find New Men so wet you could wring them out and about as heart-thumpingly sexy as socks.

Danuta Kean in The Mail

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