From what I understand, this specific instance is hosted in Ireland, which is why it's attempting to appeal to Irish law and covering it's ass by defederating from a community.
It has no further influence on instances based in other countries, so any Irish law that would abolish free speech wouldn't apply to the fediverse at large, just any instances based out of Ireland.
I mean they're still fantasy books, just with a heavy lean towards romance. If your search criteria is just fantasy there's no way to know whether you want romance included or not. I get it, I'm tired of YA romance but once you know the authors to look for you can get related books that generally skew towards your preferred type of fantasy