Originally reviewed at Christa's Hooked on Books 
 Slide is an interesting mix of supernatural and mystery but interesting nature aside it was a novel that failed to hold my attention as much as it should have. 
 The story started off promising, Vee suffers from narcolepsy, which is something you don't read about very often and if that wasn't enough she can also "slide" into other people's minds when she has one of her episodes. I found this interesting - although I never really understood why she had this talent. Beyond her talent, I also loved Vee's personality. She was spunky, listened to rock music, liked horror movies. In short she was everything that your typical gorgeous, popular, super smart YA heroine isn't. It was nice to have a a main character that I felt I could personally relate too, even with her freaky supernatural ability. 
 It was the mystery, however, that failed to deliver. The pacing just didn't feel right, it was very stop and go, which distracted me from the story. The book also felt really short. Everything seemed to happen so easily and I just don't think series of murders could be solved so easily and with so few obstacles. As much as I loved the characters I think more time should have been spent developing the mystery and how it all plays out. 
 Slide, isn't a bad debut. It's interesting and unique and has some cool characters. But I think it fell short of being a great read. I would be interested to read the next book in this series to see how Hathaway develops as a writer and where else she could take these characters. The plot seemed to wrap up nicely at the end of this book so I'm not sure where this story would/could go next. 
 Though it wasn't my favourite book I would still probably recommend it for mystery/supernatural lovers because there are some fun elements to it.