Lost Stars

It's your typical “boy meets girl, they fall in love, and eventually end up on opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War” type of story.

This is probably my favorite Star Wars New Canon book so far. I loved the characters, and the book never felt like a burden to read.

I definitely recommend this for anyone who's just generally a fan of Star Wars. If you've been looking to get into the EU, let this be your introduction. With the only downside being that everything that comes after that will not be as good and engaging.
There's not an overabundance of Star Wars novels that has normal people starring in them, let alone within the Empire. These are just kids who graduated from the Imperial Academy, and then started having doubts of what exactly they were being loyal to. And while the story does feature some known characters from the movies, it's never distracting or shoehorned in. This novel definitely makes me wish for more stories like these.

Though the book ends in such a way that this could definitely be more, like a duology.

I am also hella excited for New Republic: Bloodline now.