Top Reads 2018: Favourite Debut Novel in Thriller and Romance

To kick off my Top Favourites of 2018 I'm starting with Best Debut Novel!!!

I love finding new to me authors, and after reading- and loving- the debut books of these two writers, I'll now be keeping an eye out for their future work.

So, without further ado, here are my top favourite debut novels in the Thriller and Romance genres.

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Thriller: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

Blurb: Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.

Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.

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Purchase The Woman in the Window here.

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Romance: Rising (Vincent & Eve, Book 1) by Jessica Ruben

Blurb: As the bus approaches my stop on the Lower East Side, I raise the hood of my black sweatshirt. Anonymity is key in my neighborhood—particularly as a lone female walking at night.

All I want is to leave my crime-ridden shadow of a home in New York City. I’ve done everything I can to keep my head down and focus on my studies. College is my only goal; love has never been on the map…

That is, until my sister brings me to an underground fight, where I meet a gorgeous and mysterious man: Vincent.

He is the ghost in my shadows, showing up to feed me pieces of his upper-crust life, then evaporating into darkness until his next visit. I’m falling hard and fast. How can I trust him amidst the depth of his secrets?

Vincent may be even more dangerous than the dark world I’m trying to escape.

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Purchase Rising here.