I'm pretty surprised at the number of vampire/werewolf books that have been popping up lately. It actually turns me off to the genre a little bit. "Oh, another werewolf book set in present day." 
 However, I can appreciate a well written book, and this series is definitely that. Patricia Briggs has created several likable characters and always manages to surprise me. 
 So there's a genre called Urban Fantasy which sounds like it describes these books. Fantasy set in modern day. However, that is not the case. Urban Fantasy just means that it takes place in a city. That's pretty useless.. I think all fantasy books that I've read have had cities. Maybe the entire story didn't take place in the city, but parts of it did.