Sliding into other people's bodies, seeing what they are seeing. Now that's something I'd like to read more about I thought when I picked up my copy of SLIDE. Vee can't controll when it happens or who she's sliding into. Whenever she touches an object with lingering emotions or energy in it, she is pulled into the person that's it's connected with. You can imagine numerous unintended slides lead to a story with many short or fragmented chapters.The sliding itself was an imaginative ability to have. In combination with Vee throwing herself into the murder investigation this book had everything I was looking for in a book. Well, hypothetically. The crime case itself was only okay. The amount of details and background info were kept to a very basic level and I would've been thrilled for more twists and turns. No surprise at the boy front. Because there is a new one who's just come to town. And things are starting to heat up fast between Vee and that new boy Zane. Their relationship reaches its peak after only a couple days. And so their romance was on the average side, too. Can't compete with major YA contemporaries.The other boy in Vee's life is Rollins, her best friend. I always tended to hope for a romantic relationship between these two who had known each other for a long time. In the first book he's remained more of an inscrutable character but we get to see more of him in IMPOSTER.SLIDE is on the short side of YA books, with only around 250 pages. So consider IMPOSTER an invitation to learn more about the characters and what's behind Vee's sliding talent. Really surprising is that despite the story's shortness Jill Hathaway still found time to include deeply emotional affecting issues into it. The general story definitely worked for me, the only thing I would have wished for were a few more details and bigger developments in the relationship department.IMPOSTER comes along with a new crime case and introduces a very creepy element to Vee's life. Someone is sliding into her body and she is waking in the oddest places. Those incidents were so thrilling and I was eager to find out who did this to her and why she was targeted, I read this sequel in only a few hours.Just like the first murder the solution of the second case wasn't predictable at all. Jill thought of an original way to solve them, just the built-up should have been longer.3,5/5 ***/* SLIDE & IMPOSTER - An enigmatically good distraction!SLIDE poses as a quick read for fans of main characters with exceptional abilities. I believe the crime case was supposed to be the center of Vee's story but there was rarely a moment it held my undivided attention. Its sequel IMPOSTER that would've offered the opportunity to look at the characters' portraits, relationships and issues on a much deeper level continues more or less on the same cursory writing course SLIDE kept. Despite Vee's engrossing gift it always felt like the story was holding back and didn't exhaust its full potential. Once I started this book, I could not put the book down! Summary:Vee, short for Sylvia, is a junior in high school that has discovered an unusual talent – she can “slide” into other people’s minds and see what they are thinking and even talk for them. She has been more in control of this psychic ability since she unwittingly slid and watched the deaths of her classmates and boyfriend. But Vee has other problems besides just her psychic ability – the relationship between herself and her best friend Rollins that seems to be growing but not since he saved her life on two separate occasions, the loss of her other good friend over a loser guy and her long lost aunt who shows up to stay with them after years of separation from the family. But Vee’s biggest problem is that she loses consciousness and finds herself in precarious situations that she has no control over: waking up driving her dad’s car and wrecking it, fighting with an ex boyfriend and him “falling off” the edge of the cliff they were standing on. She quickly realizes that someone is “sliding” into her body and controlling it and Vee has no recourse. Is this “Slider” trying to get revenge on Vee? Why does her aunt know things she shouldn’t know about Vee and why has Rollins started hanging out with Anna a new girl? Vee must work on her own to solve all of these problems before someone kills her. I recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries, thrillers and love stories. It is a book that keeps you reading way late into the night! You also do not have to read the first one to be able to follow the storyline - although I am reading the first one, Slide, right now!
