(Again, no spoiler, as we know this by page five.) But here are a couple of surprises: Josh is not a bad guy and Josh did nothing wrong. Josh dies the night of senior prom after the group has long established the levels of their magic. In their world, which is exactly our world, this is a surprising development, which each of them kept secret until exchanging confidences (as teenage girls will do) at different points in their friendships. If Josh Harper hadn’t died (in a very bloody manner) then Alexis, Paulie, Roya, Iris, Marcelina, and Maryam would not have ended up in a monumentally hot mess that resulted in radical changes to all of their friendships.Through all of this, however, Josh remains dead, which is what makes When We Were Magic an unexpected novel and not at all what one could term a tale of happily ever after. (This is no spoiler, because the first sentence of the book is, “I didn’t mean to kill Josh Harper.”) Everything that follows is the result of that murder: all the action, all the drama, all the angst.
Sarah Gailey’s When We Were Magic opens with a murder.
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