Yes. I very much enjoy the Dresden files. I like the clear sense of 'something building' that is carried over from book to book but am impressed and pleased that this looming destiny does NOT get in the way of the story.

I like Sookie for light reading, Tanya Huff for something with more meat and Harry for something substantial.

BUT ... the most satisfying vampire book I think I've ever read has to be Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt the Night, turn of the last century rational scientific methodology combined with the vampire. It pleases me that the brooding romantic vampire-lover type makes no bones that it's just another weapon in the repetoire of the hunter.