My answer as well. I hate his guts, not just because he’s a dickhead, but because he is the exact same jealous, selfish, emotionally abusive dickhead at the end of the series that he was when he first appeared. He does not grow at all. Hate, hate, hate him.
I wonder if you might like it in audiobook format. The audiobook is a full-cast production, and so many of the characters are really delightful with the voice actors’ performances’ breath of life in them.