This book seems unfinished and unedited.
I am usually a big fan of the modern “Instagram” poetry style. When I read the description, I was very excited to find it was about going through adulthood while not knowing what you are doing – using a comedic relatable tone. While we can indeed find that theme and tone in this book, it is only in a few poems. The title poem “Look, I bought plants” is the best example of this, and the best one in the book.
The poems are divided in four chapters – “living”, “friendship”, “dating”, “and every other damn thing”. This division could have been fun, but some poems didn’t fit in the section they were in. In fact, some poems didn’t even fit in the book, and I struggle to even call them poetry, as they seem more like something you would tweet at 3 am while drunk. They make this book feel much longer (and boring) than it is. The best poems were in the “dating” chapter, which was by far the most relatable and witty, and the “living” chapter had the most poems with deeper meaning. However, in the “dating” chapter, some poems did feel like the feminist equivalent of a 30 year old white man getting on stage, saying “I hate my wife” and expecting laughter – I know the authors can do better, being that they proved in other poems they are able to be funny. The chapter that seemed most useless was “and every other damn thing”, being that it was just random things in life with no real meaning. This is the chapter where we could find the most “tweet poems” that should have been scrapped out in editing.
This book seems unfinished because it doesn’t really read like a book at times, more like a compilation, like we're mindlessly scrolling through someone’s Instagram and seeing their posts. It lacks transition from one theme to another – something that could have been easily done, since all the themes can overlap with one another. Something else that lacked was illustration. In this type of poetry books, good illustration is crucial. I appreciated the green flowy aesthetic, that fits with the title of the book, but some pages felt too empty. The illustrations that did exist were small and oddly placed. The only good ones were, again, in the title poem, and in the “please/ sir/ let me ghost you in peace” poem. They both managed to fill the page and be as witty as the text they accompanied. The other illustrations were too few, bland and simple.
In conclusion, this book is good if you want a very light read and something you can post on your instastories. Witty at times, but more often than not, both the comedy and poetry fall flat. Would give it 3 stars if many unnecessary short “poems” were cut and if it didn’t have so much empty space.

This book reminded me of Amanda Lovelace's "the princess saves herself in this one". However, if Lovelace managed to write small texts that could resonate with teenagers dealing with bullying or eating disorders, I can't really picture with whom these texts would resonate. I liked the pretty layout and two or three points the authors made about racism and dating. But the rest of the book looks like a compilation of Snapchat's captions, not poetry.

* I received an ARC of this novel via Netgalley. All opinions in this review are my own.

The synopsis was SO off. It made this book sound like something it wasn't even close to being. My expectations just plummeted from there. This reads a lot like Amanda Lovelace's poetry books. I'm still not sure this is an actual form of poetry. I could be wrong though and I will gladly retract this statement if that is the case.

There were a few poems that actually had a strong message and subsequently an impact of some kind on me and those (even though they were few and far between) were actually interesting. However, everything else just got an eye roll from me every few pages. I've been trying (more actively) to get into poetry these past few years and I've discovered that this kind of poetry isn't for me.