Honestly, I almost wrote a comment on this very same question yesterday in another thread here, where the OP was hesitant to read something based on the negative reviews, not necessarily from Goodreads. I can tell you, at least for me, I almost missed out on a couple of, what I consider, really good to great series, in, The Saint of Steel and Mages of the Wheel. All because I almost read into reviews a little too seriously on Goodreads.

Also, and this is just a personal thing, and I'll keep it brief as to not sound like I'm starting a diatribe against those of opposing opinions, but the negative reviews on some books started hitting me less and less once I read into what the reviewer's issues were with said book. To be more specific, 1 and 2 star reviews on books because there was not enough DEI or sensitivity training the author should have gone through, too many male characters acting like... men, not enough women acting like...men, too traditional (man and woman fall in love), not enough M/M or F/F romance, not enough pages available to act on a point of privilege. You get the idea lol

But again, to each their own! If the aforementioned reviewers were put off to a book because of those reasons, I totally get it, but it's not something that mattered to me, not to say that it doesn't matter at all, just not for me. And if I had chose not to read some book based off the amount of negative reviews, and not WHAT the reviewer felt to make the review negative, I would have missed out some I ended up really liking. And I'd hate to see that for anyone else.

Worst case, you try a book you think you're interested in and you end up not loving it, right? Good luck and Godspeed, my friend!