Reddit reviews The Way of Shadows: The Night Angel Trilogy: Book 1 (Night Angel (1))

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks is pretty good.

Helpful term for you: bildungsroman, which is the "making of the man," and is often applied to training the hero stories.

Some fantasy bildungsromans you haven't named:

• Eragon by Christopher Paolini (farm boy finds a dragon, takes on evil empire). Gets a lot of hate for being so derivative, but obviously some people liked the escapism and easy reading.
  
• Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (abused orphan finds out she has all the rare powers, gets involved in a coup). This one either fits your list perfectly or you'll hate it. I had trouble keeping the secondary characters straight and one of the later arcs is purely political.
  
• Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks (abused orphan trains to be an assassin)
  
• Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan (boy trains to be a ranger). These are more like children's books.
  
• Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce, where a girl trains to be a knight. It's marketed for girls, but every boy I've made read these books has loved them. (Inching towards children's books also.)
  
• Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, about a king's bastard trained to be an assassin. Probably the best on this list for writing mechanics.

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks

Starting with The Way of Shadows

If you want a faster paced fantasy novel, then The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks might be for you. I've only read the first book so far, but it was quite enjoyable.

I'll post links so you can get an idea of what they're about. Apologies, I'm a bit tired, otherwise I would give you a rough synopsis myself

If you're looking for some good fantasy books I'd highly recommend the following:
1.) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - http://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756404746

2.) Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence - http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Thorns-Broken-Empire-Lawrence/dp/1937007685

3.) Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson - http://www.amazon.com/Gardens-Moon-Malazan-Book-Fallen/dp/0765348780/ref=pd_sim_14_12?ie=UTF8&dpID=51pDraZRUIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR99%2C160_&refRID=1H0ZZ7MYMYZGKGQMEKTW

This next one has some fantasy elements, however, it's hard to pigeonhole into an exact genre (low fantasy adventure?), nonetheless, it's one of the better books that I've read recently.

4.) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastards) by Scott Lynch
http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-Lamora-Gentleman-Bastards/dp/055358894X/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51tpIK8K%2BtL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR98%2C160_&refRID=1H0ZZ7MYMYZGKGQMEKTW

5.) The Way of Shadows: The Night Angel Trilogy: Book 1 by Brent Weeks -
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Shadows-Night-Angel-Trilogy/dp/0316033677/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=51tPZPp5dsL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR93%2C160_&refRID=1WERAT21ARWMVZN12V2P

(All books mentioned are the 1st novel of a larger series. If you're already aware and/or read these already than disregard, trying to pass along some great books for anyone who might come across my post)

I got into the RR trilogy as a means of coming off my hangover from reading the Night Angel trilogy.

It's a fantasy book, not sci-fi, but it's very similar in other ways. It follows the journey of a young hero from zero to powerful hero, and the books tend to take a step back in scope each time just like RR.

I would say Night Angel is certainly more dark and has less of a "young adults" feel that RR does.

Both are excellent books.

Just in case you think about buying them
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Angel-Complete-Trilogy/dp/0316201286 This is for the entire trilogy
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Shadows-Night-Angel-Trilogy/dp/0316033677 And this is for only the first one.

In roughly recommendish order:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756404746

http://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Trilogy-Boxed-Hero-Ascension/dp/076536543X/

http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789035

http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Apprentice-Farseer-Trilogy-Book/dp/055357339X/

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Prince-Book-Melanie-Rawn/dp/0886774500/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Shadows-Night-Trilogy/dp/0316033677

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. One of the better fantasy books to come out for a while in my opinion.
http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller-Chronicles/dp/0756404738

EDIT: also recommend the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Shadows-Night-Angel-Trilogy/dp/0316033677/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

You rang?! I excited to get started on [this] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316033677/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2FW4CC4RC9SM5&coliid=I2VQ9SUF6IPRF4) series. Thanks!

1. Outlander Series
   
   
2. Pretty much anything by this lady
   
   
3. Night Angel Trilogy

I would first echo most people here and say Sanderson's anything- Elantris comes to mind as a good recommendation.

When you say in the same calibre, are you talking in terms of story, in terms of being high fiction, in terms of length or in terms of moments that make you go, "ohhh... well DAMN!"

I would recommend a lot of things I saw below, so I'm going to try to not do that any more than I already have. The Conan Chronicles by Robert Howard are fun and a much unappreciated classic of Low Fantasy. Orcs by Stan Nicholls is a great series, somewhere in the middle ground between high and low fantasy, and does an interesting twist on the classical fantasy story. The Gentleman Bastards series is another interesting take, but it is more of an Ocean's 11 in a fantasy world. I only saw one mention, but anything Tolkien is a must read if for nothing else than to pay respect to the godfather. The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks is another good story, and it uses a lot of the ideas Jordan uses in terms of who knows what, why and when to progress the story. Finally, for a more Eastern themed book, Tales of the Otori by Liam Hearn is a good trilogy with a lot of political twists.

EDIT: added a link for Elantris

Try reading The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks. It's not Dishonored, however, it is very much a kind of magical assassins creed lush with political corruption, violence, and magically enhanced assassination.