I have and love Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy. It took a second to get used to the present-tense writing style, but once I made the mental switchover, it really pulls you through the story. After the first one, I bought the second one, but waited to read it until I had the third one, too, because at the end of the first one, I wanted to keep going, and couldn't, and it felt like this:
I also like Lost Stars, in no small part because in it we see Rae Sloane (who's a central figure in the Aftermath Trilogy) at a significantly earlier point in her life.
I have, but have not yet read, the Thrawn books. I admit to not being a
huge fan of Tim Zahn's Star Wars work, for all he helped kick off the Star Wars Renaissance in the '90s. I like his new characters he created, but his take on the established characters felt off. I preferred Outbound Flight and Allegiance from the EU, for instance, as they focused on all his own characters.
I have mixed feelings about Bloodline. In itself, it's a good read. I just feel it should have been an episode of the saga, as it helps establish the ST setting and some of the characters we should have some attachment to.
I love Phasma as a character delve. She scares me a lot more after reading that. I'm reading Del's post-TLJ follow-up Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire now. It's nice to have the touchstone of characters from Phasma for a bit of the familiar, even as they're in a different situation now, and it's making me seriously itchy to visit Disney so I can walk through what I'm reading about.
I just recently picked up Resistance Reborn, based on the first chapter, and it's next.
After I've finished those four in my Star Wars backlog, I'll work on picking up more that I haven't gotten to yet, but that intrigue me, like Last Shot, Battlefront, and Alphabet Squadron.
And even though this thread is about the new novels, I also recommend the Marvel Star Wars offerings over on the comic book side of things.