You aren't the first person who has told me that Armstrong bored her. I guess she's not to everyone's taste. Her first two books are keepers for me, because I like Clayton and Elena. An important part of Bitten is Elena's recognition that becoming a werewolf didn't change her personality -- she had a propensity toward violence and aggression before being bitten -- it just made it easier for her let that part of herself off the leash, so to speak. The next couple of books didn't interest me so much, primarily because they felt slower and I didn't care for the heroine/protagonist, Paige Winterbourne, that much.

The unrepentant vampires are what I like about Ward's books, as well. None of that "I'm going to face the sun" whinging.