Welcome to the board!
When a new bowhunter comes into the shop looking at bows I try to point them to the longer a-t-a bow with a high brace hight and plenty of let off. These features make a bow fun to shoot and more forgiving on a bad shot.

My advice wold be to go to your local pro shops and get fitted for, draw lenght, draw weight, fingers or mechanical, and so on.

You may save a buck or two from a mail order but if you are just starting out you need some help with your set-up.

As for which brand, Most major manufacters have good mid range starter bows and I would shoot as many as I could.

You will probally get as many recomendations as there are brands out there and I know everyone thinks THERE bow is the ONLY bow. It is, but only for them. I love my High Country Ultra Pro but someone else may have tryed one and wrote it off as pure junk. For them it was.

Get a bow YOU like, not what I shoot or this buddy of that pal shoots.

Go luck and welcome to the adiction
SF