Author: Will Kostakis
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
School: Viewbank College
Reviewer: Ruslana
Genres: Adolescents, Darlinghurst (N.S.W.), Dating (Social), Family relations, Fiction, LGBTQI people, Novelists, Self-perception, Young Adult
Category: Review
Tags: Fiction, Student Review
Harvey's dads are splitting up. It's been on the cards for a while, but it's still sudden. Woken-by-his-father-to-catch-a-red-eye sudden. Now he's restarting his life in a new city, living above a cafe with the extended Greek family he barely knows. Sotiris is a rising star. At seventeen, he's already achieved his dream of publishing a novel. When his career falters, a cute, wise-cracking bookseller named Jem upends his world. Harvey and Sotiris's stories converge on…
“We Could Be Something” by Will Kostakis is a story about love and choice, about choice to love,
about accepting and giving love from others and to others. It is also a cozy place you want to return
with its special atmosphere of a Greek café with a charismatic owner Gina, grandma of Harvey, who
makes “all the favourites nobody can pronounce”. While I was reading this book, I could feel the
smell of a strong Greek coffee. It’s about ambition and dreams as well and what we can sacrifice for
them. Harvey and Sotiris are very charismatic, but Gina is my favourite character ever.
Moodboard for We Could Be Something, created by Ruslana, below.
Reviewed by Ruslana, Viewbank College.
