It's more a case of her mellowing out between the end of Heart of Ice and the Black Dossier, as the events of 1910 apparently caused her to spend the next fifteen years as an even worse pirate and mass murderer than her father was.
Heart of Ice basically shows the beginning of her realising that her reaction to what happened to her wasn't the most healthy, and that she needs to learn to appreciate the good things in life (such as love) instead of just robbing and killing people for her own amusement day after day.
The book kind of acts as a palate cleanser to 1910, the book had her start as an idealistic, self-determined young woman who didn't WANT to become her father (especially as her father viewed the fact that she was a girl was a major disappointment), only to end up accepting the role and becoming worse than him after the trauma of getting gangraped. Heart of Ice has her realising that she can't let that define her as a person, and she begins her emotional recovery, albeit some fifteen years after the event.
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Heart of Ice basically shows the beginning of her realising that her reaction to what happened to her wasn't the most healthy, and that she needs to learn to appreciate the good things in life (such as love) instead of just robbing and killing people for her own amusement day after day.
The book kind of acts as a palate cleanser to 1910, the book had her start as an idealistic, self-determined young woman who didn't WANT to become her father (especially as her father viewed the fact that she was a girl was a major disappointment), only to end up accepting the role and becoming worse than him after the trauma of getting gangraped. Heart of Ice has her realising that she can't let that define her as a person, and she begins her emotional recovery, albeit some fifteen years after the event.