What is the author's tone in Zaslow's, The Girls from Ames?

The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow is written in third person perspective with first-person input. For example, the author would write sentences such as "As Karla saw it, she had to..." He knew what Karla was thinking because he interviewed her. Still, he wrote with a third person perspective. This perspective helps a reader connect to all the characters in the book without preference. He gives an overall view of the girls in the inner workings of their friendship.