Books

In /r/fantasy, someone recently read Mistborn as their first book and loved it! I would recommend this one. Brandon Sanderson is very approachable, and he doesn't employ tropes like deliberately leaving the reader utterly confused at the same time as the main character (only a little, in manageable doses), or having a huge number of plotlines that intersect at very confusing times in confusing ways, or etc.

Which isn't to say the plot is straightforward! There's lots of twists and turns, and you'll be amazed where the series ends up :) Very suspenseful and engaging trilogy.