Slide
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Vee Bell is certain of one unshakeable truth. Sophie was murdered. But how can she prove it?
Everyone thinks Vee is narcoleptic, but her secret condition is far more terrifying. When Vee passes out she slides into other people’s minds and can see the world through their eyes. It’s been happening for long enough that she thinks she’s gotten a handle on it. But nothing prepares her for sliding into someone holding a bloody knife, standing over someone’s body.
Vee wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? She can't bring herself to tell her best friend, let alone the police. But when someone else ends up dead, Vee knows she must find a way to unmask the killer before they strike again.
Slide is a killer read written with a brilliant and super-slick style that will leave you breathless.
Reviews
"Jill Hathaway provides a fresh, vibrant voice to young adult literature. Skillfully filled with drama and tension, SLIDE is part mystery, part romance, and wholly engaging with its strong heroine and tornado-worthy twists. I simply could not put this book down." Laurie Stolarz, author of the DEADLY LITTLE SECRET series
"Heartbreaking and heart-pounding at the same time! A wonderful, intense story, SLIDE had me hooked from the first moment Vee slid into someone else's mind. I stayed up way too late because I had to see how it ended." Cynthia Hand, author of the UNEARTHLY series
"SLIDE consumed me. Intense and powerful. A mystery filled with romance and raw emotion. SLIDE is one of those extraordinary reads that stays with you long after you close the book." Sophie Jordan, author of the FIRELIGHT series
"An intriguing whodunit." Kirkus
"An emotionally taut mystery with depth." Publishers Weekly, starred review
About the author
Jill Hathaway grew up in Iowa where she graduated from the
University of Northern Iowa. She subsequently received her MA in Literature from Iowa State University and now teaches, writes and lives with her husband and small daughter in the Des Moines area.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hathaway debuts with a gripping paranormal thriller that takes the concept of "empathy" to a new level. Whenever high school junior Vee Bell comes in contact with an object another person has touched, she unwillingly "slides" into his or her mind, leaving her own body vulnerable. After she awakens beside the corpse of a cheerleader named Sophie a friend recently betrayed by Sophie's younger sister, Mattie Vee realizes she's in the body of a killer. Everyone assumes Sophie's death was a suicide, and Mattie is guilt-ridden. When another cheerleader dies, Vee decides to recognize her ability as a gift and solve the mystery before her sister becomes the next victim. The shifting perspectives as Vee enters the bodies of her friends, love interest Rollins, and others give the story an exhilarating momentum and an absorbing, cinematic quality. The interactions between Vee, Mattie, and their withdrawn father are especially well-done, as all three try to remember how to be a family five years after the death of the girls' mother. An emotionally taut mystery with depth. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable YA mystery
Slide is about Vee, a teenage girl (I think aged 17), who has a magical form of narcolepsy. When she passes out, she slides into someone else’s head for a few minutes. She can’t read their mind, but does see and experience life from their point of view. The choice of who she slides into is determined by what she was touching at the time; if she touches something which had some sort of emotional significance to another person, she’ll probably slide into their heads. Because she can’t read minds, she often doesn’t know who she’s slid into unless there’s a clue in the new environment or unless she knows what object brought on the episode.
Things aren’t exactly going well for Vee with mild injuries brought on by the narcolepsy interspersed and night-time insomnia to top it all off. But then she slides into the head of a murderer just after they’ve committed the crime. A cheerleader is dead and because the killer made it look like suicide, Vee is the only one who knows it’s murder.
This book had me guessing at whodunit until the end. I was wondering “oh, could it be that person? Surely not, but that does look very suspicious” right along with Vee and I couldn’t stop reading until I got to the end. Far from being shallow, as per my first impression, the book works much better in context. It’s written in a fairly straight-forward style but from the (first person) point of view of a teenager, this is quite appropriate.
In short, this was an enjoyable read. If you’re after some YA mystery and murder, this is a good place to start.