[wayrad]

Same here, I like the Mercy books much better. Alpha & Omega's heroine is kind of wimpy, and the series suffers from the disadvantage of the characters having been introduced in a short story which a good proportion of the first book's purchasers hadn't read. Besides, "omega" already has a perfectly good definition in animal behavior, and it jars on me that Briggs tries to arbitrarily redefine it.

Edited to add: Anybody else like Ilona Andrews? She (they?) seems to give some original twists to urban vampire/werewolf fantasy in the Kate Daniels books - and her On the Edge isn't quite like anything else out there.