Book Review - Totally Fine by Nick Spalding - #HolidayReading Dom Rep

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Title: Totally Fine

Author: Nick Spalding

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Publication Date: 15th October 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

He’s fine. Totally fine. Panic attacks? Insomnia? Just stress. Probably. Maybe. He’s…totally fine!

Meet Charlie King. He’s doing great! Honestly. A fantastic job, two solid best mates and a girlfriend who might just be The One. Life is good. Perfect, even.

So why is he waking up in a cold sweat? Why does his heart keep trying to punch its way out of his chest? Charlie should probably see a doctor. That’s what everyone keeps telling him. But it’s not that bad. He just needs a decent night’s sleep. Other than that, he’s Totally Fine.

Except for that car crash a few months ago—the one he barely remembers. The one he hasn’t thought about at all.

Not even once. Not until now…

Can Charlie fix himself—and his two equally deluded best friends—before his job, love life and future unravel completely? Or will his relentless insistence that he’s Totally Fine be the very thing that breaks him?

A wonderful look into male mental health and why men are adamant they don't need a doctor and that they are totally fine, when the rest of the world can see them spiral. 

Even with that as the main theme for this book, it is still a story filled with Nick Spalding's typical humour and some of the situations Charlie and his friends find themselves in are hilarious. 

I was practically laughing out loud at their attempt to use a very small amount of magic mushrooms! 

And some of the descriptions early on of the events that Charlie is planning are brilliant and so vivid I could see everything unfold. 

While at the same time we gradually start to understand what is causing Charlies' health decline, which is revealed slowly, all the while he is adamant that he is totally fine. 

And his girlfriend Annie is a stand up comedian and especially the one set we are treated to was intentionally very funny. 

I feel like the characters although perhaps a bit over the top in what they do, are definitely relatable to. 

This is another fabulous book from an auto read, don't even look at the blurb author for me! 

Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.