This is the final story in the Cornish Trilogy from Robertson Davies. The same cast of characters from the first two books appear along with a cast of others. I liked the characters a lot from this book. The plot was ok. This felt more of a sequel to The Rebel Angels than Whats Bred in the Bone. I think the second book in the series is the best of all three. It is more linear than say this book. There are two negative things I found in this book. The first is that I didn't care for all of the stuff about staging which makes up the last 100 pages of the book. The second thing is that I really like Davies and his books, but he always seems to veer away from male homosexuality in his books. He very clearly did this in the last book. I am not someone that needs to have gay stories in everything I read but a book about staging an opera and no gay men, come on. It just surprises me. I guess he seems intelligent and worldly, I just expected a bit more from Davies in that respect. With that said, I would give this one a 3.8/5.