Need suggestions form"picky" boyfriend fantasy reader.

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So I need a book series suggestion for my boyfriend. We both read fantasy but he has a "picky" taste as he likes to call it. He loves the Lightbringer & Nightangel series by Brent Weeks, Eragon, LOTR, and a select others I cannot remember off the top of my head. We seemed to narrow it down that he likes books where the main character starts off as nothing and becomes someone important and he has a weird obsession with assassins. If anyone has any book suggestions/series it would be greatly appreciated. Though preferably stick to trilogies, as longer series I think scare him lol.

[John]

Try Assassin's Apprentice trilogy by Robin Hobb

[Aaron]

Picky...Eragon...okay sure.

So he likes the farmboy/street urchin grows up into badass motif and no epic length series stuff.

Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Blood Song
The Name of the Wind
The Warded Man

[Brenda]

CURSE OF CHALION by Lois Bujold. Possibly the best fantasy novel ever.

[James]

Casey wrote: " he likes books where the main character starts off as nothing and becomes someone important"

Magician: Apprentice is the start of a series that runs over many books. One of the main characters is Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy, and his path to becoming a great wizard.

[Susan]

The Song of Albion Series by Stephen R. Lawhead starts with Nothing Special Guy who morphs into Pretty Amazing Guy. It's a great series - Scotland, ancient Celts, knights, magic, a prophecy - all good stuff.

[Trike]

Definitely The Warded Man. There are sequels, but if he likes the first one, he'll like the rest.

[Sparrowlicious]

Aaron wrote: "Picky...Eragon...okay sure."

Ah, that's what I wanted to write.
I'll hold back though so recommendations instead:

A Wizard of Earthsea
Gifts
Guards! Guards! (Okay, one of the main characters technically didn't start as a farm boy BUT that's only because he lived with dwarfs! Plus, Terry Pratchett is hilarious.)
The Cloud Roads (No farms here but misfit MC.)
Don't have anything in terms of assassins apart from what people here already suggested (Assassin's Apprentice for example; this one starts a bit slow but becomes more interesting as the story progresses because of it's memoir-like storytelling nature.)

[Kristin]

The Staff and Sword trilogy (although, I haven't read the third installment yet). The first book is called A Cast of Stones. Well worth a read.

[Julia]

I'm seconding The Curse of Chalion and A Wizard of Earthsea.

And suggesting for the first time: Furies of Calderon and Beguilement, but it's about a farm girl.

[Michele]

The Belgariad and the Mallorean by David Eddings are the ultimate farmboy becomes Wizard King stories. It's ten books altogether but each book is very short. Starts with Pawn of Prophecy.

[Sarah]

The Belgariad! Oh, I really love that series. It's amazing.

If you look at the polls, there was a poll that was specifically for assassin fantasy. It will have seven suggestions. I think The Way of the Shadows is what won, but there will be more.

[Michelle]

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams is a great series, but it's one of those "trilogies" where book three was split into 2 parts.

[Mary]

Might like Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy