Complications and twists keep the plot engaging and snappy. Riley and her friends navigate Los Angeles’ Koreatown and run-ins with dokkaebi and inmyeonjo with a frantic, upbeat energy. Exploring familial bonds, belonging, and community, this is a fast-paced urban fantasy drawing on Korean mythology. Feeling responsible for the calamity, Riley, along with her best friend, Emmett, will do whatever it takes to make things right, whether that means striking deals with fickle magical beings or considering the help of an ostracized magical clan. Unfortunately, their plan goes spectacularly wrong, fracturing Riley’s community and endangering Hattie. Struck by this unfairness, Hattie finds a spell that will share her magic with Riley. But because Riley is adopted and saram, or nonmagical, the other clans will not allow her to have an initiation ceremony when she turns 13 in a month. When she turns 13 in two days, Hattie will finally become a full member of the Gom clan, able to wield magic on her own. Riley Oh and her sister, Hattie, are typical Korean American girls except for one thing: They know magic is real. When a spell goes wrong, a girl sets out on a quest to save her sister.
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