I really wonder why her books receive so much recommendation. I read In the woods, The likeness and some other book that now I can't even recognize by the summary on the Goodreads. The reason why these books are so popular is beyond me.

It's faster and easier. Most of the time I don't have to say much about the book other than "I liked it" or "it was boring af". Also, when I search for a book on Goodreads, I want to see rating, and I read 3-4 reviews. If some book already has 450 reviews, writing one more seems like a waste of time. I wrote a few short reviews, and all of them are for the books which had a very few reviews.

Same here, don't worry. I have trouble to follow even those books I already read a few years ago.