I don't remember Butcher's werewolves very well, just that I didn't shriek with irritation a lot while reading the books. (Mind, I also don't remember how much shrieking I did while reading Carrie Vaughn--although I did generally like the Kitty books of hers that I read, I think she did some of the things that irk me.)

I think it would be interesting to read a werewolf novel that has family-structured werewolves, which is true of a lot of smaller packs in the wild. Completely different from sticking a bunch of unrelated wolves together in a zoo.

(I like what Patricia Briggs does with werecoyotes. I don't like what she does with werewolves. Although come to think of it, I would totally read a werecoyote book based on the wolf-sized coyotes that started packing together in New York state and hunting deer.)