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Desire #2
Shattered
Kama has made her choice, but now the revolution has begun. Book 2 of the international bestselling DESIRE series about a dystopian society touched by magic.
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First published November 8, 2011
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Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow is an USA Today Bestselling author, publisher, screenwriter, director, producer, and speaker with hundreds of books published. She is also the owner/founder and organizer of mega-book signing events like Rockin' Hollywood, Naughty Mafia in Las Vegas, which has featured the very top authors of Romance and drawn thousands of readers, including being in a documentary film now out on Amazon Prime.
Over 14 Million copies of her books have been downloaded around the world and translated into 25 languages. 2 of her book series, FADE Series and Red Genesis Series, has been optioned by the Academy Award-winning team behind Netflix #1 most Liked and Top 10 Netflix Original Film, Wish Dragon, also the team behind the special effects magic of Star Wars and Marvel films.
She owns a traditional publishing company with an API (Asian Pacific Islander) Diversity initiative that has partnerships with production companies across the globe with distribution through Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney and more! Kailin Gow is a go to media guest on Women in Film and Television and is a voting member of the Academy Awards.
Her Worldwide Brand, Kailin Gow's Go Girl has won awards for its tv series, books, cosmetics, fashions, beauty and health products, and soon-to-be home and travel products. As of 2021, Kailin Gow's Go Girl is excited to expand into its own line of hotels, starting with a 70+ room hotel in Texas. In 2022, her books will be adapted into entertainment venues called Sparklesoup World, offered in various locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.
She has been a host on world-class stages, an invited speaker for BEA and a regular radio/TV guest for major stations. She is an official voice of AAPI, She has a TV Reality show on her as an author and personality. She is also the host and publisher of a leading author industry guide, subscription newsletter, and podcast called Authors Voices. Five of her pen names are USA Today Bestselling authors and will be traditionally published in 2022. She is also a recurring speaker/instructor of writing series and serials for professional screenwriters and producers as of 2021.
She was called an "innovating author" and an "Author as Influencer" by Goodreads executives at Book Expo America 2014 in their speech.
Kailin Gow is one of Cindy Crawford's Beauties, who is beautiful on the inside as well as the outside, along with Gabrielle Union.
She was called "a successful author who knows how to balance being an author and life" by Huffington Post. USA Today recommends her steamy romances while PBS Kids have recommended her Teen Fantasy Series.
Amazon highlighted her author success story on the homepage of Amazon.com and in their book, Transformations and was invited by Amazon to be an author spokesperson for Amazon's launch of the Kindle fire in Santa Monica.
In the publishing industry, she has written and presented many articles and workshops for major publications as well as conventions. https://www.fastcompany.com/user/kail...
and is the host/founder of the podcast and newsletter Author Voices. Additionally, she owns a law firm specializing in consumer advocacy.
Kailin Gow holds a Masters degree in Management from USC and degrees in Social Ecology (Psychology, Criminology, Sociology, and Ecology/Climate), Drama, and Film making from UC Irvine where she once ran and DJ for a radio station that helped discovered OC bands like Sugar Ray and Gwen Stefani.
https://ventsmagazine.com/2025/04/10/...
Kailin Gow is an USA Today Bestselling author, publisher, screenwriter, director, producer, and speaker with hundreds of books published. She is also the owner/founder and organizer of mega-book signing events like Rockin' Hollywood, Naughty Mafia in Las Vegas, which has featured the very top authors of Romance and drawn thousands of readers, including being in a documentary film now out on Amazon Prime.
Over 14 Million copies of her books have been downloaded around the world and translated into 25 languages. 2 of her book series, FADE Series and Red Genesis Series, has been optioned by the Academy Award-winning team behind Netflix #1 most Liked and Top 10 Netflix Original Film, Wish Dragon, also the team behind the special effects magic of Star Wars and Marvel films.
She owns a traditional publishing company with an API (Asian Pacific Islander) Diversity initiative that has partnerships with production companies across the globe with distribution through Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney and more! Kailin Gow is a go to media guest on Women in Film and Television and is a voting member of the Academy Awards.
Her Worldwide Brand, Kailin Gow's Go Girl has won awards for its tv series, books, cosmetics, fashions, beauty and health products, and soon-to-be home and travel products. As of 2021, Kailin Gow's Go Girl is excited to expand into its own line of hotels, starting with a 70+ room hotel in Texas. In 2022, her books will be adapted into entertainment venues called Sparklesoup World, offered in various locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.
She has been a host on world-class stages, an invited speaker for BEA and a regular radio/TV guest for major stations. She is an official voice of AAPI, She has a TV Reality show on her as an author and personality. She is also the host and publisher of a leading author industry guide, subscription newsletter, and podcast called Authors Voices. Five of her pen names are USA Today Bestselling authors and will be traditionally published in 2022. She is also a recurring speaker/instructor of writing series and serials for professional screenwriters and producers as of 2021.
She was called an "innovating author" and an "Author as Influencer" by Goodreads executives at Book Expo America 2014 in their speech.
Kailin Gow is one of Cindy Crawford's Beauties, who is beautiful on the inside as well as the outside, along with Gabrielle Union.
She was called "a successful author who knows how to balance being an author and life" by Huffington Post. USA Today recommends her steamy romances while PBS Kids have recommended her Teen Fantasy Series.
Amazon highlighted her author success story on the homepage of Amazon.com and in their book, Transformations and was invited by Amazon to be an author spokesperson for Amazon's launch of the Kindle fire in Santa Monica.
In the publishing industry, she has written and presented many articles and workshops for major publications as well as conventions. https://www.fastcompany.com/user/kail...
and is the host/founder of the podcast and newsletter Author Voices. Additionally, she owns a law firm specializing in consumer advocacy.
Kailin Gow holds a Masters degree in Management from USC and degrees in Social Ecology (Psychology, Criminology, Sociology, and Ecology/Climate), Drama, and Film making from UC Irvine where she once ran and DJ for a radio station that helped discovered OC bands like Sugar Ray and Gwen Stefani.
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December 12, 2011
I had a hard time with this one, the first one I really loved but this one was missing something. I really like the characters and Kailin Gow has beautiful prose. This one felt a little rushed. I still want to read the third, just a little let down about this one. I do love the cover for this book almost as much as the first.
March 11, 2012
I really enjoyed both Desire and Shattered but it really bugs me that Kama's father's name is changed from Gereral Adon in Desire to General Adar in Shattered. Maybe I'm the only one who noticed but I couldn't get past it at certain times.
January 5, 2012
More please, ready for Passions anyone know the exact release date???
December 1, 2012
I LOVE KAILIN GOW AS AN AUTHOR AND I REALLY ENJOYED DESIRE! I'm pretty sure I own like 95% of her books <3
January 21, 2012
2.5-3 Stars
The cover for this book much like the second one, if gorgeous. I love everything about it. It is very eye catching and sort of just draws you in.
So needless to say after reading the first book in the series and hoping that this would be a series that would get better over time and truly thinking the series has potential, I was excited to read the second book, especially after having read the novella that came in between these two which really was quite good, even better than the first book.
So it is with a sad heart that I have to say, this book did not live up to its cover nor to my expectations of it.
Is it wrong to say how disappointed I am with the plot?
This book just felt so..rushed and thrown together.
It has some of the most unbelieveably cheesy lines in it between Kama and Torrid and that is saying a lot from me because normally cheesy it okay with me. I am after all a hopeless romantic so I normally eat that stuff up but in this book it just felt so insincere and like Gow was just trying too hard to make it seem romantic and lovey dovey and just...ugh!
This was a short book to begin with so really there wasn't room for a whole lot of action or things to happen, I understand that but what did transpire just was so fast and sometimes even a little confusing feeling.
Things happened a little too quickly and Kama didn't grow like I was really hoping she would.
The book said she did and wanted you to believe that she had but when it came down to her fighting and using her powers she just bombed.
Like everything she had been training with Torrid flew right out of her mind and she just couldn't do it.
She made some stupid mistakes and then couldn't get herself out of them.
Liam was just off in this book too.
I understand he learned a lot about Pim in this story that was devastating to him but his character still didn't feel right. He became hardened and acted almost like he espected Kama to be with Torrid and that he was okay with that. I mean, he is suppose to love her. He isn't even going to fight for her?
That is just wrong.
I don't know. I really am considering whether it would even be worth it to continue on with this series.
Maybe once the disappointment doesn't seem so sharp I will give it another shot.
The cover for this book much like the second one, if gorgeous. I love everything about it. It is very eye catching and sort of just draws you in.
So needless to say after reading the first book in the series and hoping that this would be a series that would get better over time and truly thinking the series has potential, I was excited to read the second book, especially after having read the novella that came in between these two which really was quite good, even better than the first book.
So it is with a sad heart that I have to say, this book did not live up to its cover nor to my expectations of it.
Is it wrong to say how disappointed I am with the plot?
This book just felt so..rushed and thrown together.
It has some of the most unbelieveably cheesy lines in it between Kama and Torrid and that is saying a lot from me because normally cheesy it okay with me. I am after all a hopeless romantic so I normally eat that stuff up but in this book it just felt so insincere and like Gow was just trying too hard to make it seem romantic and lovey dovey and just...ugh!
This was a short book to begin with so really there wasn't room for a whole lot of action or things to happen, I understand that but what did transpire just was so fast and sometimes even a little confusing feeling.
Things happened a little too quickly and Kama didn't grow like I was really hoping she would.
The book said she did and wanted you to believe that she had but when it came down to her fighting and using her powers she just bombed.
Like everything she had been training with Torrid flew right out of her mind and she just couldn't do it.
She made some stupid mistakes and then couldn't get herself out of them.
Liam was just off in this book too.
I understand he learned a lot about Pim in this story that was devastating to him but his character still didn't feel right. He became hardened and acted almost like he espected Kama to be with Torrid and that he was okay with that. I mean, he is suppose to love her. He isn't even going to fight for her?
That is just wrong.
I don't know. I really am considering whether it would even be worth it to continue on with this series.
Maybe once the disappointment doesn't seem so sharp I will give it another shot.
June 11, 2016
Kama’s perfect world is literally shattering all around her. Chunks of the atmosphere/ dome are raining down. The “perfect” world of Arcadia is coming undone. Liam’s father, Governor Pim, has used Magical Ones, djinn/genies, to create a utopia world.
Dr. Sanz has imprisoned Kama, and Liam tries to get her out. When outside, a genie flies her out of Arcadia when he learns that General Adar is her father and turns out to be Prince Rodin, Torrid’s brother. While she’s in the land of her father, Torrid teaches her how to fight using magic. Kama is determined to save Matthew and Jocelyn, a couple who found out the secret about the Coliseum, along with the other citizens of Arcadia.
I didn’t love this one as much as the first, but I still really liked this one. This time Torrid was in it more than Liam. I have to say I really missed Liam. I used to be torn between them, but I guess what they say about absence making the heart grow fonder. I’m definitely rooting for Liam, but I would love to learn more about Torrid’s world.
I liked all the magic that Kama was able to do. I didn’t really think about this until I read another review, but Kama wasn’t as kick-butt during fighting as she should have been. She was great practicing with Torrid, but when it came down to the wire, she wasn’t all that. I looking forward to find out more about her father in the next book!
Dr. Sanz has imprisoned Kama, and Liam tries to get her out. When outside, a genie flies her out of Arcadia when he learns that General Adar is her father and turns out to be Prince Rodin, Torrid’s brother. While she’s in the land of her father, Torrid teaches her how to fight using magic. Kama is determined to save Matthew and Jocelyn, a couple who found out the secret about the Coliseum, along with the other citizens of Arcadia.
I didn’t love this one as much as the first, but I still really liked this one. This time Torrid was in it more than Liam. I have to say I really missed Liam. I used to be torn between them, but I guess what they say about absence making the heart grow fonder. I’m definitely rooting for Liam, but I would love to learn more about Torrid’s world.
I liked all the magic that Kama was able to do. I didn’t really think about this until I read another review, but Kama wasn’t as kick-butt during fighting as she should have been. She was great practicing with Torrid, but when it came down to the wire, she wasn’t all that. I looking forward to find out more about her father in the next book!
August 7, 2012
Shattered is Book 2 in the Desire Series
The main theme in this book is the start of the war between The Magical Ones ( genies who at one time were enslaved, and now turned rogue or basically have a lust for power). The residents of Arcadia , who for the most part have no idea or ideals of magic. Last but not least genies, who are trying to rescue the innocent and bring justice to the guilty.
Kama , has been involved in a love triangle , she is still in love with Liam and has attraction to Torrid.
I liked this book but I felt that I had missed something, Do you know that feeling? I think something that bothered me with this book is the continued theme of a love triangle. Kama is our main character, a daughter of a great general who's destiny is to basically save all the people of Arcadia. At the moment ,I feel very lack luster about her .
The main theme in this book is the start of the war between The Magical Ones ( genies who at one time were enslaved, and now turned rogue or basically have a lust for power). The residents of Arcadia , who for the most part have no idea or ideals of magic. Last but not least genies, who are trying to rescue the innocent and bring justice to the guilty.
Kama , has been involved in a love triangle , she is still in love with Liam and has attraction to Torrid.
I liked this book but I felt that I had missed something, Do you know that feeling? I think something that bothered me with this book is the continued theme of a love triangle. Kama is our main character, a daughter of a great general who's destiny is to basically save all the people of Arcadia. At the moment ,I feel very lack luster about her .
June 27, 2012
Once again, Gow has issues with making the way people speak believable. Even harder to come to terms with is the fact that she will resolve one "problem" just for it to pop up again in later chapters, with no explanation as to how the problem reappeared. Also, I have serious issue with using 3 terms for one type of being...especially when describing who is battling whom. There are times when it takes some real thinking to figure out who is "good" and who is "evil," with no real help from the author until the battle is over and you see who is left standing.
April 26, 2012
Blah. Very blah. They have a party... In the middle of a war.... ? I dont buy it! Kama somehow became very vapid between the first and second book. "Oh this dress is perfect to wear to a party where we ignore the whole war that is going on around me" Just no.
It did pull itselfs together towards the end but still...Its very omg boyz!
It did pull itselfs together towards the end but still...Its very omg boyz!
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July 9, 2012
As I have said before this series gets better with each book... But I am a little disappointed because after I finished it I downloaded # 3, the ending in the epilogue of 2 was slightly different than the beginning of 3, then I realized that #3 was only 152 page.... Why didnt they just release 1 and 1.5 as one book and 2 and 3 as part two, oh yeah money hungry that's it!!!!!
April 17, 2012
Pointless novella. make it a novel- there's the story.
June 5, 2012
Can't even finish it. Terrible
November 3, 2012
This was so good, I really liked it. If you like the Matched series, this is a good series to try.
October 20, 2012
the series just got better and I instantly needed to buy the next book.
December 16, 2012
The story line on this book is good, but there were enough small grammatical errors that took away from the flow of the story.
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