Delirium by Lauren Oliver

      Many years ago scientist thought love was a curse. They required everyone to have a procedure done on their eight-tenth birthday. This procedure was suppose to cure them of deliria but it was also know to make them emotionless and perform almost as zombies. On their eight-tenth birthday after the cure the girls were given a list of five men that they could marry. She then choose one and if she was going to college then the day she graduated she would marry off to the man of her choice. If she wasn't going to school then the scientist would choose a date for her to get married. Everything was decided for people. Their job was choose for them, who they'd marry, and even how many children they'd have. Sex was no longer considered "love making." Love didn't exist anymore so sex was just something you did for pleasure.

   In part of the book there is a party and all the kids go just so they could hear music. Music in their society is prohibited so they sneak off to go to parties in abanded places. They just sit around for hours listening to music and enjoying the night air. Lena ran into Alex and aked him what he was doing there. Alex replied "I came to hear the music, like everybody else."