I enjoyed those books in a similar way as this one: light reads. I take them into the bath when I am feeling sad and stressed and then I feel better. The sequels hold up, although things got a little silly for a while in the third, and they're a hell of a lot more thoughtful than most of the paranormals out there right now.

That being said, I think they do suffer from some of the same syndrome that the rest do, but...very slightly. The strength of Vaughn's stuff, at least by me, is that it seems to be aware in the narrative of the genre conventions it's working with. And will occasionally snark them, or undermine them, or tip them a nod as it goes. Which went a long way, at least with me, to making the people populating those books feel a hell of a lot more like people.