A book about how women are too emotional to be entrusted with power.
Overall not that great. It reminded me of World War Z, where the formula was [national stereotype + zombies]. Here the formula is [stereotyped gender interaction + gender flipped]. The writing is fine, but for so many parts of the book I would read a few sentences, and then go "oh, right, got it, I understand what the rest of this section is supposed to be." Which is a shame, because the writer is better than that, and the parts of the book that were not the uninspired gender-flips were often fun and creative. The author has some interesting story threads in there: there's a The Stand type spiritual manipulation towards apocalypse, there's a British family crime drama like Down Terrace, there's at least a little Sanderson type exploration of how society would change with minor magic powers. These would all work much better if they were not weighed down by re-occurring slogs through uninspired rule 63 territory.
Edit 1: Actually, wait, after another day at the pool, another thoughts. A) Why does no one in this book ever use their electricity powers to kill a mosquito or a wasp? A definite oversight in the world building. B) on a related note, I think the author does a fair amount of damage to her world building by trying to squeeze everything into this gender-flip template. So much damage. I think a better book would engage in more precise thinking rather than running everything off of this one, constant, simple conceit. C) I think that this book thinks of itself as feminist, but really the message of the book is "someone will always be holding the whip; woe to the conquered". This is perhaps not the best message if you are trying to promote equality.