Books like The Morganville Vampires, #1-9

I read this series because it's my friends favourite vampire series and she read mine, "House of Night". One of the things I like about this series is that it's different, nothing like the second most pathetic vampire book that is twilight (yeah I have actually read worse) or the awesomeness that is Vampire academy or House of Night. It's a totally new idea and there is no love triangle yay! However Claire annoyed me, she was kind of to, I dunno, I'm-gonna-do-this-cause-you-told-me-not-to kinda person. Shane annoyed me as well, all my friends are like Shane's awesome, he's so hot, he's so right for Claire. But I kind of think he's to generic and mean. His best friend basically dies everyday, goes through huge amounts of pain and can't leave the house and the only way he can stop that is by becoming a vampire but for Shane that's like Michael killed his Mum and is completely horrible to him for the rest of the series. On the plus side I do like Michael, I think Eves a great friend and that Myrnin is just plain awesome. So I think you should read it but it isn't the best vampire book out there