It's not that the story wasn't good to read, but there's something not so enjoyable about the it. I'd guess it's because it feels like reading a critique of a biological deterministic view of power, or one that only sees power relations through the lens of patriarchy/matriarchy. This leads to a story where the abuse of power by men swaps for exactly the same behaviour in the same structures by women.

Maybe it's the nature of power, but it feels more a perspective of it that only sees it one way which after a while makes it a hard read.

Even under the pretext of the book - women becoming physically stronger than men through having The Power. Would no other structures really change? Would society be so exactly reproduced?

But I guess that was the point of the book.