Girls in Tears wraps up Jacqueline Wilson's Girls quartet, continuing the story of Ellie and her best friends, Nadine and Magda.

russell is sex crazed, disgusting, jealous and rude and she's still thinking about getting back together with him? I'm not sure if it's ennui at reading them one after the other (not to mention being way outside the target age range now), but this felt like a poor relation to the first three. The main character is 13, but this book talks quite openly about older boys pressuring the girls for sex, going to house parties and drinking straight vodka. Russell gets more toxic by the page in this book - his infamous trait of constantly pressuring Ellie into sex rears its ugly head and is never treated as disgusting and wrong as it actually is. The whole thing is just awful and I'm glad I read it at 35 not as a young impressionable girl because I'm not sure what messages I would have taken away from it but none of them would have been good!no character development, no literature, just dumbed down soap opera for kids with poor language that translates in to a scholastic rating of grade 6-9.

this book is amazing for young teenagers it is perfect, there is laughing, crying and DRAMA of course, i would recommend this book to anyone between th age of 11 to 15. Where the previous book saw the girls go off with a group of strange men, this one has Ellie and her friends getting drunk at a party. It would have been great to see some development where she finally stood up for herself and moved on. Russell is a jealous sex crazed maniac and yet somehow like she has always done with her friends, she’s willing to forget it all and start again despite in this case the clear warnings that his actions weren’t okay long before he tried to shag her supposedly unattractive friend.My advice would be to stop at the first three (In Love, Under Pressure, Out Late) and only continue on if you are desperate for more Girls drama which, quite honestly, I was really not by this point. The TV show did this a lot better by working the competition into Ellie's work experience with an artist and leaving her mum's character out of it. Ellie's romance is on its last legs, thanks to a persistent boyfriend, Nadine is "in love" with a boy she met on the Internet and is planning to go and meet him despite the other girls' insistence that things may not be quite as they seem, and Magda's hamster has died, leaving her less than happy with her friends' response to her grief. I also like how Jacqueline Wilson put down the feelings of Isabelle and how she thinks her life is horrible.

The person I think I’ve always been angriest with is Nadine for that one last kick to the gut, choosing Magda. And, as good as it is to portray teenagers being happy in relationships, I certainly don't like how the boys are characterised as only interested in sex. It was mentioned several times that Russell wanted to go further than Ellie, but this wasn't explored in much detail. The characters in this book are great though when Ellie gets cross she can sometimes act like it is the end of the world . It’s a weird combination, and as a result I cringed inwardly several times when the girls would talk about sex/pressures from boys to take things ‘further’ etc.This fourth installment came out a couple of years later and I don't remember ever reading it -- I think I'd moved on by then. my favorite characters are Nadine because I like her goth style ,and Magda because she is fun and loveable . When she gets there, it's a soft porn theater and the "boy" is an "old man" so luckly the other 2 girls had been spying on her and followed and they save her from the "pervy creeper". This time around, Ellie has to watch as all of the key relationships in her life start to fall apart.