The Best of Teresa Wentzler: Fantasy Collection

This book contains ten of the most fabulous fantasy designs I have ever found. Teresa Wentzler's designs are stunningly complex, intricate, and challenging, but the results are oh so beautiful.
For anyone who may be wondering, the Wentzler designs included in this book are:
Rapunzel; Day and Night (depicted as two ladies in flowing garb); Magical Night (pegasi draw a sleigh through the sky); Carousel; The Castle Sampler; Stroke of Midnight (Cinderella flees from the ball); The Castle (pictured on the cover); Pegasus; Unicorn
Picking a favorite out of these is next to impossible. I bought it on account of the gorgeous dragon in The Castle, but fell equally in love with the Unicorn, a wistful nighttime scene to be stitched on black fabric, and the Pegasus, who poses next to a forest pool with wings held high. Wentzler's designs are like oil paintings in their use of light, achieving an especially fine, sunlit effect in Pegasus and Rapunzel. There isn't a weak one in the entire bunch. The photos of the finished pieces are very nice, and this book would be worth getting just as an art book.
If there is any drawback to these designs, it's that they are on the difficult side to stitch. There is no color used on the charts, so you just have to keep track of all those different little markings, and Wentzler designs require a lot of blended threads and quarter stitches. Bear in mind the results are worth it! Beginning stitchers should not so much avoid this book as tuck it away in their collections as something to look forward to stitching once they have had more practice.