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Shifters and Partners: Box Set 1-10
Shifters and Partners
Box Set 1-10
by Hollis Shiloh
over 482,000 words of fiction
My Partner the Wolf
My Partner and Me
Joey and the Fox
My Sahil
Partners in Deed
Some Reservations
Shelter
FOXED
Trey's Partner
Journey
My Partner the Wolf
Chemistry off the charts—but is that enough?
Tom Langley and Sean Goods work together in a human-and-wolf shifter partnership, assisting the police, rushing in to solve crimes wherever their bosses send them. They're a great team, and they have fun together, joking and enjoying each other's company in a way that doesn't happen every day.
Tom is also a married man. And his husband hates the wolf shifter with a passion. Tom tries to balance the sides of his life—one minute on a high-pressure chase with Sean, the next placating his husband Lowell.
Then the unthinkable his marriage ends. Heartbroken, he's not expecting to ever get over Lowell's betrayal or to be able to love again.
Sean offers a sex as friends. They have chemistry, and they trust each other.
But can they change their partnership that much? And is Sean secretly harboring feelings for him—expecting more than just sex?
Sean is a loveable, funny, strong, and protective. He's the best buddy a guy could have. But Tom might not be able to keep from breaking his heart—if Sean is in love with him, and Tom can't love him back.
this novel contains angst
paranormal, contemporary, cops, partners, wolf shifters / werewolves, friends-to-lovers, angst, emotional
My Partner and Me
Being mates makes everything perfect—doesn't it?
Sean is happy with his mate, Tom. As far as he's concerned, life is golden. Except for when it isn't. Their work is dangerous. While Sean's recovering from his most recent injury, he hears a little girl in his head, calling for help. And his wolf side is acting too sensitive, too vulnerable. He needs Tom more than ever, especially when it means facing his family and old wounds. Even if things are never truly right for his wolf side, at least he has a mate who will never leave him…right?
Joey and the Fox
Asshole cop. It's Joey's role, and one he's comfortable with. Joey tells gay jokes. He's crude, tough, and thick-skinned. But now he's got a chance to work with a fox shifter—and he doesn't want to lose that opportunity.
Dylan is a clingy and broken, cheerful but lost, seriously unpredictable…and very gay. But Joey desperately wants the partnership to succeed. He's not willing to lose the fox shifter for any reason, even when Dyl drives him crazy.
Is there any way to make it work? And will the weird attraction he feels to the cute redhead ever go away?
My Sahil
Grant Ralstead has loved Sahil Singh for years, working with him and being his friend but knowing all the time that the angry, fierce human is his mate.
Singh doesn't believe in mates or love, and doesn't trust anyone. But he worries every time Grant has to go away on a mission, endangering himself. Even though he pushes Ralstead away, his feelings about the wolf shifter are clearly complicated.
Is there any hope for a happily-ever-after between a wounded human and the wolf shifter who loves him?
A Ralstead and Singh short novella. Fits in the Shifters and Partners universe.
Relationship-centered, very low heat, some angst.
...AND SIX MORE!
The entire series so far in one box set.
Box Set 1-10
by Hollis Shiloh
over 482,000 words of fiction
My Partner the Wolf
My Partner and Me
Joey and the Fox
My Sahil
Partners in Deed
Some Reservations
Shelter
FOXED
Trey's Partner
Journey
My Partner the Wolf
Chemistry off the charts—but is that enough?
Tom Langley and Sean Goods work together in a human-and-wolf shifter partnership, assisting the police, rushing in to solve crimes wherever their bosses send them. They're a great team, and they have fun together, joking and enjoying each other's company in a way that doesn't happen every day.
Tom is also a married man. And his husband hates the wolf shifter with a passion. Tom tries to balance the sides of his life—one minute on a high-pressure chase with Sean, the next placating his husband Lowell.
Then the unthinkable his marriage ends. Heartbroken, he's not expecting to ever get over Lowell's betrayal or to be able to love again.
Sean offers a sex as friends. They have chemistry, and they trust each other.
But can they change their partnership that much? And is Sean secretly harboring feelings for him—expecting more than just sex?
Sean is a loveable, funny, strong, and protective. He's the best buddy a guy could have. But Tom might not be able to keep from breaking his heart—if Sean is in love with him, and Tom can't love him back.
this novel contains angst
paranormal, contemporary, cops, partners, wolf shifters / werewolves, friends-to-lovers, angst, emotional
My Partner and Me
Being mates makes everything perfect—doesn't it?
Sean is happy with his mate, Tom. As far as he's concerned, life is golden. Except for when it isn't. Their work is dangerous. While Sean's recovering from his most recent injury, he hears a little girl in his head, calling for help. And his wolf side is acting too sensitive, too vulnerable. He needs Tom more than ever, especially when it means facing his family and old wounds. Even if things are never truly right for his wolf side, at least he has a mate who will never leave him…right?
Joey and the Fox
Asshole cop. It's Joey's role, and one he's comfortable with. Joey tells gay jokes. He's crude, tough, and thick-skinned. But now he's got a chance to work with a fox shifter—and he doesn't want to lose that opportunity.
Dylan is a clingy and broken, cheerful but lost, seriously unpredictable…and very gay. But Joey desperately wants the partnership to succeed. He's not willing to lose the fox shifter for any reason, even when Dyl drives him crazy.
Is there any way to make it work? And will the weird attraction he feels to the cute redhead ever go away?
My Sahil
Grant Ralstead has loved Sahil Singh for years, working with him and being his friend but knowing all the time that the angry, fierce human is his mate.
Singh doesn't believe in mates or love, and doesn't trust anyone. But he worries every time Grant has to go away on a mission, endangering himself. Even though he pushes Ralstead away, his feelings about the wolf shifter are clearly complicated.
Is there any hope for a happily-ever-after between a wounded human and the wolf shifter who loves him?
A Ralstead and Singh short novella. Fits in the Shifters and Partners universe.
Relationship-centered, very low heat, some angst.
...AND SIX MORE!
The entire series so far in one box set.
1345 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 12, 2016
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18 people want to read
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February 26, 2022
These stories felt really dated and occasionally very GFY. I read Dirt Magic and was hoping for something similar but I don't think this unverse is the place to start.
February 25, 2024
Shifters and Partners
DNF'd at 21%
(completed Book 1
DNF'd Book 2 at page 58)
BOOK 1 – 3*
TRIGGERS: kidnapping of a child, mentions of threats of rape, depression, cheating, divorce
This was a tricky one for me. On one hand, I wasn't a fan of some of the creative choices the author made, but on the other, I really liked one of the MC's and the concept behind the story. I just found the plot to be extremely repetitive and over-dramatic. However, I connected to Sean, the love interest, and his POV is used in the next book, so I'll keep reading for that, then the third book is a different couple, so I'll read that. I'm hoping I can keep going, because I want to find out about Singh and Ralstead, who are the couple in Book 4 (I think?)
Let's start with the things that didn't work for me:
randomly dropping into the line “he's a wolf shifter and we work together” like it meant nothing. I wanted at least a little bit of a lead-up to the news, but it was just plopped in without any significance.
choppy, incomplete sentences
a lot of telling not showing throughout the book.
I had a hard time remembering their names, especially in the first half, because they were always together so with the POV being 1st person, I was never reminded of Tom's name, even in dialogue, and Sean's popped up so infrequently that I almost forgot his name too.
The single character POV made it strangely disconcerting to discover that I liked Sean more than Tom, who was the POV character. For being the central POV, I actually grew to really dislike Tom. He wasn't worthy of Sean at all, and I would have been happy, by the halfway point, if Sean had been given another partner and fallen for them instead. By the end of the book, I never wanted them to get back together.
Sean is actually mis-labelled as Lowell (Tom's husband) twice within one page
I wanted more from the investigation scenes. There are some investigations where we see a lot of how they investigate, but at other times, Tom is shot and kidnapped in two separate investigations and we don't get to see how that happened in either case. Why not?
There is NO clear timeline. In fact, there is no timeline whatsoever. There are multiple leaps in time when we don't know if it's been days, weeks or months, and then later you suddenly discover that some huge change that you thought led to at least a year of gap actually all happened in six months.
For being a “team”, Tom is actually a pretty inept cop and Sean carries him all the time. This is a running joke between them, that Sean carries Tom because of his extra wolf abilities, but it's not funny because it's true and not because Sean is a wolf. Tom is so distracted by his relationship with Lowell that he's rarely on-the-job mentally, in any of the scenes we see. Maybe if we actually got to see how he ended up in trouble during those investigations, we might see more of him being a good cop with bad luck, as I think we're supposed to. Instead, he just seems incredibly useless.
Tom spends about 90% of his relationship with Sean either being a work partner or using him for sex, with the sole purpose of forgetting about Lowell.
I get that Tom is devastated by the divorce and Lowell leaving, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, you don't need to repeat it and pound us over the head with it every five seconds.
For me, Tom is too selfish for this story and romance to ever make sense.
At the beginning, I was glad to see an honest an real portrayal of a character's messy divorce. I liked that Tom was devastated, emotionally crippled by the divorce and not ready to date or be with Sean just because he thought it would help. I liked that he wasn't instantly cured by moving on with someone new and that the divorce wasn't just a plot to get him together with Sean.
However, that quickly grew tiresome. Tom kept making excuses for Lowell, kept being drawn back to him. There was no need for manipulation on Lowell's side, because Tom was a carpet ready to be walked over and he let one look from Lowell dictate his actions. Tom had no sense of self; he just did whatever made Tom happy, the one exception being the events that led to their divorce. It all felt too unrealistic and forced, especially with Tom refusing to let go, being unable and unwilling to give Sean a chance.
Worse, when he did end up with Sean, he literally used the “friends-with-benefits” offer from Sean to use him for sex. That was all he wanted from Sean, despite knowing he wanted more. And though Tom mentally agonised over doing what was right for Sean, they had NO communication that wasn't banter at work or yelling accusations.
And when someone hints that they're mates – an outside source, because Sean is gentle and sweet enough not to put pressure on Tom – Tom is the rudest MC I've ever seen in a shifter book, going on to Sean's face how even the concept of “mates” is nonsense. Who the hell is Tom to tell Sean how shifters work, what they believe in and what matters to them? He never once tried to get to know about shifters or understand Sean's life or culture.
For me, Tom constantly punishes Sean for not being Lowell, and Sean is so wrapped up in hoping for the best and trusting that they're mates that he'll suffer anything just to be with Tom. But he does push back and I loved him for that.
As an MC, I really loved Sean. He was an interesting shifter, who really utilised his abilities in his work, while remaining carefree and happy despite being unwanted in his pack. He's lost a lot (which is never acknowledged by Tom properly) and just wants to use his abilities to help people. He loves Tom, loyally and wholeheartedly, but he also had the strength not to sabotage his marriage with Lowell just to have Tom to himself. And when that marriage fell apart, he was there for Tom, no matter how stupid Tom behaved or how rude he was. He tried to understand and accept Tom for who he was, without ever being the same courtesy in return.
I ended the book feeling like Sean deserved better and Tom didn't deserve to even work with Sean never mind be with him romantically. However, I'll give them another chance because Book 2 is in Sean's POV, which should be more bearable, and I want to learn more about his pack dynamics. I also find his cousin interesting.
Fingers crossed it's better!
-
BOOK 2 – 2*
TRIGGERS: mentions of off-page suicide, homophobia
I wanted to love this, or even just like it more than Book 1, but it didn't happen. The story began vague, skimming over details, throwing information into random places. There's a lot of telling not showing, and every other thought is about sex, like sex is always the answer. It just doesn't feel authentic.
Besides from sex, I really don't see the banter, friendship and trust that existed between Sean and Tom at the beginning of Book 1. It's like that all disappeared, leaving Tom a nervous wreck and Sean using sex to reassure Tom. It got frustrating because Sean was going on at length about missing children and dead missing children related to their work, and suddenly there are 3-4 endless paragraphs all about sex with Tom, which was really unnecessary.
Sean's 1st person POV is really strange, because the main text is written in the same way as Sean's dialogue – using 'baby' and being casual. That never happened in Book 1 and it doesn't feel authentic to use it outside of dialogue. It's almost like a different person wrote Book 2, except that the same problems here also existed in Book 1.
Tom is mislabelled as Sean twice in just two pages.
In the end, I got to page 58 – which is 21% of the entire book – and ended up skimming the last three pages, because *nothing* was happening. For nearly 60 pages, the only thing that had happened was Sean and Tom visiting his pack and some mysterious girl appearing in Sean's dreams. Beyond that, it was 60 pages of Sean and Tom being all over each other.
I'm sorry to say that there's all sex no substance. I won't be continuing the series. Although I was looking forward to Sean's story, he was so whiny and totally different to Book 1 – where he'd been strong, confident and madly in love. But here, he's really selfish, with a one-track mind, and he'd lost everything that made him a great character.
And while I was intrigued by Singh and Ralstead, hoping to see them get together, but Book 2 explicitly mentions that they're together and madly in love, so I don't really feel like I need to go on. I knew they'd get together, but knowing that it's happened already, it doesn't matter anymore.
DNF'd at 21%
(completed Book 1
DNF'd Book 2 at page 58)
BOOK 1 – 3*
TRIGGERS: kidnapping of a child, mentions of threats of rape, depression, cheating, divorce
This was a tricky one for me. On one hand, I wasn't a fan of some of the creative choices the author made, but on the other, I really liked one of the MC's and the concept behind the story. I just found the plot to be extremely repetitive and over-dramatic. However, I connected to Sean, the love interest, and his POV is used in the next book, so I'll keep reading for that, then the third book is a different couple, so I'll read that. I'm hoping I can keep going, because I want to find out about Singh and Ralstead, who are the couple in Book 4 (I think?)
Let's start with the things that didn't work for me:
randomly dropping into the line “he's a wolf shifter and we work together” like it meant nothing. I wanted at least a little bit of a lead-up to the news, but it was just plopped in without any significance.
choppy, incomplete sentences
a lot of telling not showing throughout the book.
I had a hard time remembering their names, especially in the first half, because they were always together so with the POV being 1st person, I was never reminded of Tom's name, even in dialogue, and Sean's popped up so infrequently that I almost forgot his name too.
The single character POV made it strangely disconcerting to discover that I liked Sean more than Tom, who was the POV character. For being the central POV, I actually grew to really dislike Tom. He wasn't worthy of Sean at all, and I would have been happy, by the halfway point, if Sean had been given another partner and fallen for them instead. By the end of the book, I never wanted them to get back together.
Sean is actually mis-labelled as Lowell (Tom's husband) twice within one page
I wanted more from the investigation scenes. There are some investigations where we see a lot of how they investigate, but at other times, Tom is shot and kidnapped in two separate investigations and we don't get to see how that happened in either case. Why not?
There is NO clear timeline. In fact, there is no timeline whatsoever. There are multiple leaps in time when we don't know if it's been days, weeks or months, and then later you suddenly discover that some huge change that you thought led to at least a year of gap actually all happened in six months.
For being a “team”, Tom is actually a pretty inept cop and Sean carries him all the time. This is a running joke between them, that Sean carries Tom because of his extra wolf abilities, but it's not funny because it's true and not because Sean is a wolf. Tom is so distracted by his relationship with Lowell that he's rarely on-the-job mentally, in any of the scenes we see. Maybe if we actually got to see how he ended up in trouble during those investigations, we might see more of him being a good cop with bad luck, as I think we're supposed to. Instead, he just seems incredibly useless.
Tom spends about 90% of his relationship with Sean either being a work partner or using him for sex, with the sole purpose of forgetting about Lowell.
I get that Tom is devastated by the divorce and Lowell leaving, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, you don't need to repeat it and pound us over the head with it every five seconds.
For me, Tom is too selfish for this story and romance to ever make sense.
At the beginning, I was glad to see an honest an real portrayal of a character's messy divorce. I liked that Tom was devastated, emotionally crippled by the divorce and not ready to date or be with Sean just because he thought it would help. I liked that he wasn't instantly cured by moving on with someone new and that the divorce wasn't just a plot to get him together with Sean.
However, that quickly grew tiresome. Tom kept making excuses for Lowell, kept being drawn back to him. There was no need for manipulation on Lowell's side, because Tom was a carpet ready to be walked over and he let one look from Lowell dictate his actions. Tom had no sense of self; he just did whatever made Tom happy, the one exception being the events that led to their divorce. It all felt too unrealistic and forced, especially with Tom refusing to let go, being unable and unwilling to give Sean a chance.
Worse, when he did end up with Sean, he literally used the “friends-with-benefits” offer from Sean to use him for sex. That was all he wanted from Sean, despite knowing he wanted more. And though Tom mentally agonised over doing what was right for Sean, they had NO communication that wasn't banter at work or yelling accusations.
And when someone hints that they're mates – an outside source, because Sean is gentle and sweet enough not to put pressure on Tom – Tom is the rudest MC I've ever seen in a shifter book, going on to Sean's face how even the concept of “mates” is nonsense. Who the hell is Tom to tell Sean how shifters work, what they believe in and what matters to them? He never once tried to get to know about shifters or understand Sean's life or culture.
For me, Tom constantly punishes Sean for not being Lowell, and Sean is so wrapped up in hoping for the best and trusting that they're mates that he'll suffer anything just to be with Tom. But he does push back and I loved him for that.
As an MC, I really loved Sean. He was an interesting shifter, who really utilised his abilities in his work, while remaining carefree and happy despite being unwanted in his pack. He's lost a lot (which is never acknowledged by Tom properly) and just wants to use his abilities to help people. He loves Tom, loyally and wholeheartedly, but he also had the strength not to sabotage his marriage with Lowell just to have Tom to himself. And when that marriage fell apart, he was there for Tom, no matter how stupid Tom behaved or how rude he was. He tried to understand and accept Tom for who he was, without ever being the same courtesy in return.
I ended the book feeling like Sean deserved better and Tom didn't deserve to even work with Sean never mind be with him romantically. However, I'll give them another chance because Book 2 is in Sean's POV, which should be more bearable, and I want to learn more about his pack dynamics. I also find his cousin interesting.
Fingers crossed it's better!
-
BOOK 2 – 2*
TRIGGERS: mentions of off-page suicide, homophobia
I wanted to love this, or even just like it more than Book 1, but it didn't happen. The story began vague, skimming over details, throwing information into random places. There's a lot of telling not showing, and every other thought is about sex, like sex is always the answer. It just doesn't feel authentic.
Besides from sex, I really don't see the banter, friendship and trust that existed between Sean and Tom at the beginning of Book 1. It's like that all disappeared, leaving Tom a nervous wreck and Sean using sex to reassure Tom. It got frustrating because Sean was going on at length about missing children and dead missing children related to their work, and suddenly there are 3-4 endless paragraphs all about sex with Tom, which was really unnecessary.
Sean's 1st person POV is really strange, because the main text is written in the same way as Sean's dialogue – using 'baby' and being casual. That never happened in Book 1 and it doesn't feel authentic to use it outside of dialogue. It's almost like a different person wrote Book 2, except that the same problems here also existed in Book 1.
Tom is mislabelled as Sean twice in just two pages.
In the end, I got to page 58 – which is 21% of the entire book – and ended up skimming the last three pages, because *nothing* was happening. For nearly 60 pages, the only thing that had happened was Sean and Tom visiting his pack and some mysterious girl appearing in Sean's dreams. Beyond that, it was 60 pages of Sean and Tom being all over each other.
I'm sorry to say that there's all sex no substance. I won't be continuing the series. Although I was looking forward to Sean's story, he was so whiny and totally different to Book 1 – where he'd been strong, confident and madly in love. But here, he's really selfish, with a one-track mind, and he'd lost everything that made him a great character.
And while I was intrigued by Singh and Ralstead, hoping to see them get together, but Book 2 explicitly mentions that they're together and madly in love, so I don't really feel like I need to go on. I knew they'd get together, but knowing that it's happened already, it doesn't matter anymore.
March 5, 2019
PLEASE READ FIRST MY RATING SYSTEM!!!
To my ratings (thanks to amazon I had to change it again and 'upgrade' it a little bit.):
5* - very very good and rare (it would be a Blow-
Away-book like 'Liberty' from Seth King,
'Save the at he kids' series from EM Leya or
'Jesse's Smile' or ‚Joey’ from Angelique Jurd),
it's like an A+
4* - very good and will be often reread and is a
WOW-book with interesting plot and surprises
(like most of Andrew Grey books) it's like an A
3,5* - a really good book, which will be reread a few
times a year (most romances where you can
enjoy for relaxing and during waiting times in
hospitals). I can recommend them definitively!
It's like an B+
3* - it could be more then a one-time-reader,
maybe 2-3 times a year. It’s like a B
2* - it was ok to read, but it's more a one-time-
reader (i wouldn't recommend it heartily, but
it was ok). It's like a C-, D
1* - sorry, but that isn't really a book for me (too
many mistakes, not nice plot, illogical, so an
absolut NO-GO). It's like failure in the whole
line, dismissed, repeat the class
To my ratings (thanks to amazon I had to change it again and 'upgrade' it a little bit.):
5* - very very good and rare (it would be a Blow-
Away-book like 'Liberty' from Seth King,
'Save the at he kids' series from EM Leya or
'Jesse's Smile' or ‚Joey’ from Angelique Jurd),
it's like an A+
4* - very good and will be often reread and is a
WOW-book with interesting plot and surprises
(like most of Andrew Grey books) it's like an A
3,5* - a really good book, which will be reread a few
times a year (most romances where you can
enjoy for relaxing and during waiting times in
hospitals). I can recommend them definitively!
It's like an B+
3* - it could be more then a one-time-reader,
maybe 2-3 times a year. It’s like a B
2* - it was ok to read, but it's more a one-time-
reader (i wouldn't recommend it heartily, but
it was ok). It's like a C-, D
1* - sorry, but that isn't really a book for me (too
many mistakes, not nice plot, illogical, so an
absolut NO-GO). It's like failure in the whole
line, dismissed, repeat the class
November 6, 2017
Not my usual cup of tea, but I was looking for a mellow read. Ten books for ten bucks sounded good.
Giant pile of mushy. Just what I needed this fall.
A few editing issues. The books are pretty short, but satisfying. The main focus of these stories is relationship development. I really appreciate and author who emphasizes character and relationship development.
Giant pile of mushy. Just what I needed this fall.
A few editing issues. The books are pretty short, but satisfying. The main focus of these stories is relationship development. I really appreciate and author who emphasizes character and relationship development.
July 13, 2019
An engaging series that has several really strong stories to tell with great characters. There are some that just don't quite make it, but for the most part the stories keep you going through the collection.
May 15, 2018
It would be nice if the author formatted their books like a normal author into chapters. For that reason alone, 2 stars.
December 3, 2018
I loved this bundle set. Some stories I absolutely LOVED others were okay. Shiftiers being partnered with human armed forces to catch bad guys. Some not getting along at first but they soon realise their feelings. Scenes are brilliantly written with sequences of dramas and beautiful love scenes included..
June 22, 2019
These stories happen in the same universe, but only the first few books have a common set of characters. I enjoyed reading about other shifter/partner situations.
I knew that I had gotten too deep into the books when I was visiting my father in the hospital and thought "if they had a shifter from that new shifters and partners program ...". I caught myself before saying anything to my sister. That is an endorsement of how well Hollis Shiloh wraps readers into this world.
I knew that I had gotten too deep into the books when I was visiting my father in the hospital and thought "if they had a shifter from that new shifters and partners program ...". I caught myself before saying anything to my sister. That is an endorsement of how well Hollis Shiloh wraps readers into this world.
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