This is a dark retelling of The Lion King from Nala's point of view, though her character in the book is named Nera. She's an MC brat who falls in love with her BFF, Cub, who will one day take over for his father (Cub's POV is told in a separate story that was previously published as part of an anthology). First, let me say that I really liked the plot...it fit well into the MC world. But the execution of the story was a tad bit hard for me to follow. It's told VERY quickly, and years skip by from chapter to chapter. There are parts of the story which take place in Mexico, and that's where it went downhill for me. The Spanish used in the story was incorrect, both grammatically and technically, missing accents where needed which then changed the word, etc. I'm bilingual so those who aren't probably won't pick that up, but it distracted me.