Truesilver

by Gareth Ian Davies

292 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 2026

About the author

Gareth Ian Davies was born and raised in the south of London , during which time he wrote many terrible things and dreamed of becoming a novelist. Instead, he earned a degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and didn’t quite know what to do with it. After moving to the American Midwest he flirted with a career in nuclear engineering before taking the somewhat safer path as a software architect.

He spent the next three decades writing code and technical documentation, before finally realizing his dream by publishing his first novel. Gareth lives in St. Louis with his wife, her sadly declining fish population, two cats, and a cockatiel.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

xavier and his whole found family crew have my entire heart. the world building is insane but somehow the pacing never drags like you just get thrown right into the chaos with no time to catch your breath. the tension between the fae and humans is soooo good and the political stuff actually makes sense instead of being confusing af

i was screaming at the book at like 2am because the banter between the siblings was too perfect and then the emotions just hit meeeee. I wanted to hug every single character, especially xavier, sharol, and ruian.

BUT THE CLIFFHANGER?! PLZZZZZZZ😭😭😭 why would you do that to me? I am literally waiting for book 2 like it is going to be released tomorrow.

if you want a revolution, magic and a story that will make you feel everything all at once, you neeeeeed to read this.

5 stars for sure. send help (and book 2) immediately. 🖤✨

Tropes
✨Found Family
✨Double Agents
✨Fae vs Human High Stakes
✨Explosions & Chaos
✨Systemic Power Dynamics
✨Magic School
✨Forbidden Relationship & Magic
✨Shaman/Rituals
✨Patriarchal Society

[Spicybooksndirtylooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

ᖇEᐯIEᗯ:
I'm not always a fan of politics, but the injustice towards folk people really struck a nerve and enraged me. This did not feel like it was 292 pages long. Action and chaos hit from the first chapter, and the multiple POVs keep you immersed in the world-building and character development. Gareth really packed a lot into this one! Drama, tension, some banter between siblings, and murder in broad daylight, to name just a few. The bridge scene had me on the edge of my seat, sweating. Explosions. Magic. A sprinkle of forbidden love. The revolution is well underway & that cliffhanger ending has me waiting for more.

ＭＹ ＦＡＶＯＲＩＴＥ ＱＵＯＴＥＳ：
"🄰🄲🄲🄾🅁🄳🄸🄽🄶 🅃🄾 🄳🄰🅅🄴🄺, 🅃🄷🄴 🅁🄰🅅🄴🄽 🄲🄻🄰🄽🅂 🅆🄴🅁🄴 🄵🄰🄼🄾🅄🅂 🄵🄾🅁 🅃🄷🄴🄸🅁 🄲🄾🄽🄽🄴🄲🅃🄸🄾🄽 🅃🄾 🅃🄷🄴 🄽🄰🅃🅄🅁🄰🄻 🅆🄾🅁🄻🄳. 🅃🄷🄰🅃 🅆🄾🅁🄻🄳 🄷🄰🄳 🄱🄴🄴🄽 🄸🄽🅅🄸🅃🄴🄳 🄸🄽🅃🄾 🄷🄸🅂 🄵🄰🄼🄸🄻🅈’🅂 🄷🄾🄼🄴. 🅂🄼🄰🄻🄻 🅃🅁🄴🄴🅂 🄼🄰🅂🅀🅄🄴🅁🄰🄳🄸🄽🄶 🄰🅂 🄷🄾🅄🅂🄴🄿🄻🄰🄽🅃🅂 🅂🄿🅁🄴🄰🄳 🅃🄷🄴🄸🅁 🄳🄴🄽🅂🄴 🄻🄴🄰🄵🅈 🄱🅁🄰🄽🄲🄷🄴🅂 🄾🅅🄴🅁 🄸🅃🅂 🅆🄰🄻🄻🅂 🄰🄽🄳 🄲🄴🄸🄻🄸🄽🄶, 🅈🄴🅃 🅃🄷🄴 🄷🄰🄻🄻🅆🄰🅈 🄱🄰🅃🄷🄴🄳 🄸🄽 🅂🄾🄾🅃🄷🄸🄽🄶 🅈🄴🄻🄻🄾🅆 🄻🄸🄶🄷🅃 🄵🅁🄾🄼 🄾🄿🄴🄽 🄳🄾🄾🅁🅆🄰🅈🅂."

𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗸: “𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴? 𝗢𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗜 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀?”
𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦: “𝘐’𝘮 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨,” 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘺.
𝗛𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘄𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮’𝘀 𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗺, 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹'𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲 [....𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻. 𝗚𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸!]

𝔇𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: "𝔗𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔲𝔭 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔬’𝔳𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫"

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠’𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞- 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧, 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞.

"ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪᴛ ᴡᴀꜱ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇ ᴛᴀʙᴏᴏ. xᴀᴠɪᴇʀ ʜᴀᴅ ᴏɴʟʏ ꜱᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇꜱᴜʟᴛꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ, ᴜɴꜱᴀɴᴄᴛɪᴏɴᴇᴅ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ ᴀ ʜᴀɴᴅꜰᴜʟ ᴏꜰ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ. ɪᴛ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ɢᴏᴛ ᴇᴀꜱɪᴇʀ."

Pɾαʅιƙ Oɳҽ Rαʋҽɳ: "It is fascinating that creating beauty such as this produces more, and purer truesilver than menial tasks. Naturally, it pleases me also. I can sometimes forget that I live in the midst of the largest human city in Novomond, and believe myself roaming the pristine forests of my ancestors.”

"I don’t expect people like you to thank me, but I do expect you to let me do my job. Thanks for calling it in.”
𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦? 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?
𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬.

"ɴᴏ ᴅᴀʀᴋꜰᴏʟᴋ ʟɪᴠᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴏʀɴʙᴜʀɢ, ɴᴏᴛ ᴜɴʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴀ ꜱʟᴀᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ."

[Calitchi · Rating 5 out of 5]

🔥ARC Review🔥

I received this ARC from the author.

Gareth, thank you for the opportunity to take a peak into this story and your story creation.

There are no spoilers in this review. This is a story you need to experience yourself.

I will start as follows!
Thank you for including when the story takes place. There are so many stories that lack information on when the story is set, and I find myself struggling to place myself in the story. You did this wonderfully.

The action was there from the beginning. You are taken through intense discussions and experiences early on, but it does not lax as the story continues.

The pace is excellent. Gareth does not waste time on building the world and explaining what is happening. The character arcs are exactly the amount you need to know for the characters you are encountering on book 1. You learn to love and hate these characters from the moment you meet them.

The evolution and growth you live through with the characters are palpable and enjoyable. The sibling banter is just on point.

The fact that you took pieces of contemporary history and past history is amazing as it adds to the lore and the story behind it.

Now to the bad part..........The CLIFFHANGER! AAAAAAHHH. Now I have to wait for book 2 and this is going to be my demise. Haha

Thank you so much for the amazing story of the Chaos Walkers, and I can not wait until I meet these characters again in the next story. Your Two Snake Fan. 😉

Highly recommend.

[Blair · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Chaos revolution has started.

And I am down for the Folk.

Y'all. Within two chapters, if that, I was ready to throw down for Jek One Raven. Then my feelings just compounded along the way. There were so many times I was screaming at the book or reading with my mouth open in shock or full on sob crying. I felt all of the emotions possible throughout the book and by the end I didn't know if I could take anymore. I honestly want to wrap my arms around Xavier and Sharol and Ruian. My heart still hurts.

This book just came out, literally, and I cannot wait for book two. I have so many questions about how the characters will deal with so many things.

[Sponkles · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is absolutely amazing!!! Gareth just knows how to suck you into his stories and keep you hooked, wanting more. The characters are so good, some you cant help but love and others you will hate with a burning passion. The twists and turns from this adventure will have you screaming from the chaos. I can't wait for book 2!!

[Heather. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another amazing read from Gareth! This book pulled me in from the start. Twist and turns around every corner. The world he has created is like no other I have read before and I loved everything about it. I can't wait to see what comes next!

[Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really really good! I was into it right from the beginning until the cliffhanger ending. Loved the world that the story takes place in and learning about the families that the story is told through, that being the human West family, the LightFolk One Raven family, and the DarkFolk ti-Lan'ot family.

If you love dark fantasy stories with the below tropes definitely join the Chaos Walker Revolution and check this one out!

🐍 Found Family
💧 Politics
⛰️ Secret Society
🐦‍⬛ Fae vs. Human
🔮 High Stakes
🐍 Vengeance / Revenge
💧 Explosions/ Chaos
⛰️ Double Agents
🐦‍⬛ Systemic Power Dynamics
🔮 Forbidden Magic