Rotham Race by Jordan Elizabeth

Rotham Race by Jordan Elizabeth
Publisher: CHBB Publishing
Genre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (139 pages)
Age Recommendation: 14+
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

The United States is gone; in its place is a broken country struggling to survive. A lost microchip can turn the US back into the superpower it once was. Every year, racers head out into the desert to find the microchip, but they never return.

This year, Troy is going to change all that. He plans to win the Rotham Race.

Finding the microchip, though, might not be all the citizens think. Government secrets surround the race, and the one to win doesn’t receive just fame and glory. He or she gets death.

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Troy’s life at the orphanage was described in vivid detail. The woman who ran it had to keep quite a few children alive on a shoestring budget. She worked incredibly hard to make sure all of the kids were fed, educated, and loved. I was impressed with how much she accomplished, especially given how little she had to work with and how long she’d been doing this job without a break. Troy might have been the hero, but she was the person who made it possible for him to take on that role in the first place.

I would have liked to see more character development in this story, especially when it came to Troy. He was a fascinating guy, but he more or less remained the same person from the beginning to the end. This surprised me because of how many memorable things happened to him. He had plenty of opportunities to grow and change as a person, but I didn’t see a lot of evidence of him doing that.

As soon as I learned just how dangerous the Rotham Race was going to be for Troy, I couldn’t wait to see how he’d react to spending that much time out in the desert alone and with only a few supplies. He did know how to race, but he didn’t have any experience surviving in such a harsh and unforgiving environment. I worried about his safety from the beginning. It was impossible to stop reading until I knew how he’d fare in this race.

The romantic subplot felt completely out of place to me. While I liked the characters who were involved in it as individuals, things heated up between them so quickly that I had trouble understanding why and how they’d jumped into a non-platonic relationship so fast. The fact that both of them were struggling to solve some pretty important problems at the same time only made this storyline even more confusing to me. It simply didn’t make sense for their character arcs in my opinion.

One of the things I liked the most about the plot was how self-sufficient everyone was. They lived in a time and place where everything from medical care to food was rationed based on someone’s place in that society. There were many shortages, and ordinary people suffered terribly as a result of them. Everyone had to be resourceful with what little they were given, and that lead to some pretty inventive uses of the supplies they were able to grow, hunt, or trade for.

Anyone who loves the dystopian genre should give Rotham Race a try.