Gifted Clans Book 1: The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim

Gifted Clans Book 1

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Graci Kim's thrilling debut about an adopted Korean-American girl who discovers her heritage and her magic on a perilous journey to save her witch clan family.

Riley Oh can't wait to see her sister get initiated into the Gom clan, a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Her sister, Hattie, will earn her Gi bracelet and finally be able to cast spells without adult supervision. Although Riley is desperate to follow in her sister's footsteps when she herself turns thirteen, she's a saram--a person without magic. Riley was adopted, and despite having memorized every healing spell she's ever heard, she often feels like the odd one out in her family and the gifted community.

Then Hattie gets an idea: what if the two of them could cast a spell that would allow Riley to share Hattie's magic? Their sleuthing reveals a promising incantation in the family's old spell book, and the sisters decide to perform it at Hattie's initiation ceremony. If it works, no one will ever treat Riley as an outsider again. It's a perfect plan!

Until it isn't. When the sisters attempt to violate the laws of the Godrealm, Hattie's life ends up hanging in the balance, and to save her Riley has to fulfill an impossible task: find the last fallen star. But what even is the star, and how can she find it?

As Riley embarks on her search, she finds herself meeting fantastic creatures and collaborating with her worst enemies. And when she uncovers secrets that challenge everything she has been taught to believe, Riley must decide what it means to be a witch, what it means to be family, and what it really means to belong. 

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My Review: 5/5 Stars 

Like in all the new series of the Rick Riordan Presents Imprint, Riordan has a message to reader. In this one, he mentions how he immediately got sucked into the story and couldn't put it down. Forgetting, that he needed to be editing. I now understand exactly what he meant. This book was fantastic. I couldn't put it down. It was so easy to read and so easy to get sucked in to the story. You can't help but be sucked in to Riley's story. It truly was a great one. So this story revolves around Korean mythology. My knowledge of it was zip to none before this book, but now I just want to dive in and learn even more! So this story follows Riley Oh. She was adopted by a family in the Gom clan. The Gom clan are healers. And because she was adopted she was no magical abilities unlike everyone else in the clan. When her sister Hattie is about to go through the initiation ceremony, Hattie comes up with a crazy plan. A plan that will share her powers with Riley. But when the attempt to do the spell, everything changes. Riley learns something about her past and literally so much blows up after that. It's insane and keeps you on the edge of your seat as truth bomb after truth bomb goes off. It really would be spoilers to spell it out, but this book was a lot of fun. The adventure and characters were great. The plot twists even crazier! I cannot wait for the second book after that ending. So good!