The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offers their review, if only to subscribers:
The Slide is the funny, haunting and tense coming-of-age story of Potter Mays…and it is quite a stunner. Sort of like a less loquacious David Foster Wallace, or a less self-conscious Brett Easton Ellis…Beachy is an astute, empathic observer. [He] has filled The Slide with wry observations and moments of great tension.