Yesterday, while I had the day off from work, I thought that I would pick up a book by four different authors. Laurell K. Hamilton, Yasmine Galenorn, Marjorie M. Liu, and Sharon Shinn, all come together to write a book with four different stories with the same theme, magic and love. Each story surrounds a princess of some sort, from one time or another, but each also has an element of magic in it. The first story, Can He Bake a Cherry Pie?, by Laurell K. Hamilton is about a princess who would rather take her own destiny in her hands, than be married to someone that she does not want. Instead, she decides to save a prince that was banished from his land, and kept away by a witch, because he did not appreciate women. Although, this is a short story in the book, it's a great one that is filled with a woman who does not fear dieing instead of living a life of hate, distaste, loneliness, and abandonment. The second story, "The Shadow of Mist," by Yasmine Galenorn, is about...
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