diff --git a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useFetcher.ts b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useFetcher.ts
index 9b2ccada9f08..f9ffdd22286a 100644
--- a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useFetcher.ts
+++ b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useFetcher.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { useContext, useRef, useCallback } from 'react';
 import { FetchAction, UpdateFunction, ReceiveTypes } from 'rest-hooks/types';
 import {
   RECEIVE_DELETE_TYPE,
@@ -17,6 +16,8 @@ import {
 } from 'rest-hooks/resource';
 import { DispatchContext } from 'rest-hooks/react-integration/context';
 
+import { useContext, useRef, useCallback } from 'react';
+
 const SHAPE_TYPE_TO_RESPONSE_TYPE: Record<
   FetchShape<any, any, any>['type'],
   ReceiveTypes
@@ -46,7 +47,10 @@ export default function useFetcher<
   fetchShape: Shape,
   throttle = false,
 ): Shape extends DeleteShape<any, any, any>
-  ? (params: ParamsFromShape<Shape>, body: BodyFromShape<Shape>) => Promise<any>
+  ? (
+      params: ParamsFromShape<Shape>,
+      body: BodyFromShape<Shape>,
+    ) => ReturnType<typeof fetchShape['fetch']>
   : <
       UpdateParams extends OptimisticUpdateParams<
         SchemaFromShape<Shape>,
@@ -56,7 +60,7 @@ export default function useFetcher<
       params: ParamsFromShape<Shape>,
       body: BodyFromShape<Shape>,
       updateParams?: UpdateParams | undefined,
-    ) => Promise<any> {
+    ) => ReturnType<typeof fetchShape['fetch']> {
   const dispatch = useContext(DispatchContext);
 
   // we just want the current values when we dispatch, so
diff --git a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useResource.ts b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useResource.ts
index 82a154ef15c5..177813b192ea 100644
--- a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useResource.ts
+++ b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useResource.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { useMemo, useContext } from 'react';
 import {
   ReadShape,
   Denormalize,
@@ -8,6 +7,8 @@ import {
 import { useDenormalized } from 'rest-hooks/state/selectors';
 import { StateContext } from 'rest-hooks/react-integration/context';
 
+import { useMemo, useContext } from 'react';
+
 import useRetrieve from './useRetrieve';
 import useError from './useError';
 import hasUsableData from './hasUsableData';
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ function useManyResources<A extends ResourceArgs<any, any>[]>(
     // only wait on promises without results
     .map(
       (p, i) =>
-        !hasUsableData(denormalizedValues[i][1], resourceList[i][0]) && p,
+        !hasUsableData(denormalizedValues[i][1], resourceList[i][0]) && !!p,
     );
 
   // throw first valid error
diff --git a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useRetrieve.ts b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useRetrieve.ts
index 6710687ce7b4..aad8db456e52 100644
--- a/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useRetrieve.ts
+++ b/packages/rest-hooks/src/react-integration/hooks/useRetrieve.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { ReadShape, Schema } from 'rest-hooks/resource';
+import { ReadShape, ParamsFromShape } from 'rest-hooks/resource';
 
 import { useMemo } from 'react';
 
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import useFetcher from './useFetcher';
 import useExpiresAt from './useExpiresAt';
 
 /** Request a resource if it is not in cache. */
-export default function useRetrieve<
-  Params extends Readonly<object>,
-  S extends Schema
->(fetchShape: ReadShape<S, Params>, params: Params | null) {
+export default function useRetrieve<Shape extends ReadShape<any, any>>(
+  fetchShape: Shape,
+  params: ParamsFromShape<Shape> | null,
+) {
   const fetch = useFetcher(fetchShape, true);
   const expiresAt = useExpiresAt(fetchShape, params);