What is the author's style in Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers?

Meyer's writes the novel from the first-person point of view. Richie Perry, a seventeen-year-old soldier in the Army sent to Vietnam in 1967 is the narrator. Richie often narrates in a free flow of ideas style, with his words representing his feelings at the moment he feels them. We learn more about the personalities of other characters and their motivations through the way Richie describes them. Though his narration could be viewed as one-sided, Richie often keeps his own opinion out of the story and merely tells the story of what is happening.