Do book reviews influence your reading choices?

Illustration by Yelena Bryksenova

I got done reading Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and, giddy (loved it, loved it, loved it, so much love in it and so much life and beauty), went to grab the book next on my reading list, Natalie Young's Season to Taste which I found through an article, can't remember which now,but as I clicked on it on my Goodreads to-read list to mark it as currently-reading,I couldn't help but to see the overall rating of 2.54 stars, and right away I felt my...